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Washington State Data Center Project

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Table of ContentsThe Need for a New State Data Center .......................................................................................................3

Project Overview ........................................................................................................................................4

Potential Cost Savings for State ..................................................................................................................6

Privatizing the State Data Center ................................................................................................................7

Current Contracting for Products and Services ...........................................................................................8

Private Sector State Data Center Lease Option ………………………………………………………………………………………….9

Alternative Site Analysis……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10

Alternative Site Analysis (Chart) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….14

Wheeler Site vs. other Thurston County locations ……………………………………………………………………………………17

Why Wheeler? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………19

Parking at Wheeler …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..21

Cost Recovery Summarized Recommendations ……………………………………………………………………………….……….22

Version: #18 – May 20, 2009

4/8/2023 This is a dynamic, working document created to respond to questions from the Legislature about the State Data Center Project located on the Wheeler Lot in Olympia, Washington. It is frequently updated with additional information.

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The Need for a New State Data Center

The Washington State Data Center became operational in 1975, with a renovation in 1991. Today’s new technologies, services, power requirements, and security issues have changed the way data centers operate. Incorporating these features into old infrastructure is costly and virtually impossible to achieve. Modern design principles will help the state to achieve the greatest cost savings for power and IT infrastructure. For example, the airside cooling system that will be used in the new data center will save $100,000 per year for every megawatt of load resulting in a savings to the state of $700,000-$900,000 annually.

Factors to Consider:

The existing Data Center is out of date. The State Data Center was designed for a 1970’s mainframe environment and has been modified many times. Aged infrastructure, from old electrical systems to older earthquake codes, creates significant risks for on-going data center operations.

The existing State Data Center is full. The State Data Center has about 30,000 sf of raised floor space with approximately 2,000 sf available for additional use. Additionally, the current facility is running out of pathway capacity to place cable resulting in inefficient cable use which is difficult to support and may not meet the demands of current technology.

Power issues. The existing State Data Center is under-powered. Demand for critical power has increased by approximately 200kw/year since 2005. Remodeling the power plant for the facility is not a viable option. The existing State Data Center and individually located agency data centers are not power efficient. New, uninterruptible power supplies in the new State Data Center will be more robust and 30% more efficient than the current system. At full design capacity, the annual energy savings would be approximately $400,000.

Opportunity exists to transform at least 32 standalone agency data centers located throughout Thurston County into one. These 32 agency data centers currently occupy approximately 65,000 sf of raised floor space.

The existing State Data Center is not secure. The new State Data Center creates a centralized location that meets current Homeland Security requirements. Also, disaster recovery mitigation is much more efficiently accomplished in a centralized location.

Jobs stimulus. 1,200 family wage jobs will be created by the Wheeler Lot construction, which is ready for groundbreaking immediately upon Legislative approval.


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Project OverviewTotal square footage: 302,800 sf

Data Center and production: 172,800 sfOffice Building: 130,000 sf

Total Cost: $255 million Includes: Site work, design, structures (including parking garage), landscaping and project mitigations

Data Center $69MillionOffice Building $186Million

Mitigation Breakouts*: $3 million for traffic roundabout$2.8 million for Jefferson St. and 16th Ave. improvements$200,000 for bike trail connection

*These are included in the total price of structure

Costs through March, 2009:Fund 057 $ 1,400,000 ($2M planning fund)Fund 419 (Bond reimbursable) $ 10,400,000 (pre development)Cancellation Fees $ 1,500,000Total $ 13,300.000

Equipment Costs as of January, 2009 Using on-going lifecycle refresh funds and 419 fund balance, DIS is not anticipating a need for additional

funding for transitioning current equipment to new data center. Furniture and move costs will be covered by separate COP financing:

Description Count Unit Cost Extension

Work Station Furnishings/Equipment 400 $6,500 $2,600,000 Moving Cost 400 $300 $120,000 Moving Consultants n/a $200,000 $200,000 Fit-Up Costs 400 $100 $40,000 De-commission Old Stations 400 $50 $20,000 Contingency @ 5% 5% $149,000

Total Furniture & Move Costs $3,129,000


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Base rent for annual DIS Leases in Thurston County in 2009$1.9 million for office space/year$1.5 million for data center/year

Lease rate for Wheeler. Based on the 2007-2009 Capital Budget the lease rate will not exceed 110% of comparable private market rental rates (estimated between $26-$28/sf for 2011).

Jobs created by Wheeler Lot construction project: 1,200

Schedule as of January, 2009:Site work for project can begin almost immediately upon approvalApril 2009 – Design and guaranteed maximum price completedMay – June, 2009 – Bond SaleJune 2009 – building construction permits issuedJanuary 2010 – off-site mitigation completedJanuary 2011 – Substantial completion of data center and officeJune 2011 – Certificate of occupancyData Center migration may take up to a year, based on best practices from Oregon experience

Groundbreaking for the Wheeler Lot project could begin within a matter of weeks after legislative approval, providing 1,200 jobs through the length of the project. Moving the location would delay the project and government reform for technology a minimum of 3 years.

The Wheeler Lot project qualifies for Build America Bonds (or “BABs”), which are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The savings realized for project financing for the project will be $1.9 million per year or $53 million overall. Availability is limited: the bonds must be awarded within the next two years, with construction starting within that time. Only the Wheeler Lot option would qualify.

SEPA (State Environmental Policy Act) Appeal has been dismissed by an Administrative Law Judge. The Judge determined that the appellants did not establish “injury in fact” nor did they establish that the Modified Mitigated

Determination of Non-Significance was “clearly erroneous”.


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Opportunity for Shared ServicesIn a 2006 survey, 31 Washington state agencies reported that they have an agency data center in Thurston County.

Significant savings could occur for the state as a whole if agency-operated data centers took advantage of the new State Data Center. While rates will be impacted at the end of the project, the potential exists for those costs to be mitigated by a shared service approach. State agencies have not yet identified a shared service approach for using the new Data Center.

Actual cost mitigation and operational efficiencies will be dependent upon the shared services approach developed by potential State Data Center users.

Economies of Scale Gartner research shows that more efficient technologies allow for greater economies of scale:

“Intel Server cost per server and cost per processor are often used to determine the total amount IT spends to support the Intel Server environment.”*

Base of Server Ranges

Under 50 Servers 50-150Servers

150-250Servers

250+Servers

Cost Per Server $22,960 $16,818 $15,852 $12,505Cost Per

Processor$10,318 $8,234 $8,278 $5,989

* Source: Gartner IT Key Metrics Data 2008

Another metric, Gartner Group’s IT Key Metrics for Government Infrastructure, suggests that approximately one quarter of state government IT staff typically support data center, telephone, and data networking activities.

Raised Floor SpaceToday, approximately 65,000 sf of raised floor space supports agency data centers in Thurston County, including the DIS Data Center. Transformation of this space could result in additional Thurston County office space should a remodeling investment be made. Office space lease rates in Thurston County are currently $27-$28/sf per year.

Energy Efficiency Moving these individually hosted centers into one energy-efficient data center would result in significant

overall power cost avoidance for the state. The new State Data Center design incorporates ultra-high efficient uninterruptible power supplies that

operate at 99% efficiency, which is 30% more efficient than those in current use. At full capacity, the annual energy cost avoidance would be approximately $400,000.

State Data Center air-side cooling will avoid approximately $100,000 per year/per megawatt of load, resulting in annual cost avoidance for the state of $700,000-$900,000.


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Privatizing the State Data CenterThree states have tried privatizing their Data Center responsibilities to private providers:

Connecticut was an early proponent of privatizing their data center but abandoned their plan after it was determined that the vendor’s proposed savings could not be met under the conditions (including labor demands) required by the state. The CIO wrote, “Several factors led me to conclude that the draft contract . . . would not be in the best interest of the state of Connecticut and should not be pursued.”

The Governor of Texas recently halted the privatization effort and fined IBM over $5.4 million for failing to back up data, server outages, missed deadlines, and slow problem resolution. The Secretary of State's office gave the IBM team a 0 on a scale of 1 to 5, and the Department of Transportation said that resolving computer problems that used to take a state employee less than an hour to fix were taking as long as a week.

A recent Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee report noted that the privatization effort ended the 2008 budget year with a $16.5 million overrun. The work is behind schedule and there will be no savings to the state through the initial 10-year term of the state’s $2 billion agreement with Northrup Grumman. State agencies complained about overcharges and the use of remote monitoring software that they believed compromised sensitive data.

Factors to consider:

Cost Creep-While initial cost savings associated with data center privatization may seem attractive, additional services, service upgrades, and technological additions can add significantly to overall costs. In addition, internal innovation and productivity improvements become additional “cost-per-service” under a privatized approach.

Jobs – Private providers can outsource jobs overseas or out of state.

Security – Additional layers of security must be added to secure sensitive state and private information in vendor environment.

Labor – Connecticut faced strong opposition from state IT employees affected by the plan to outsource. Texas and Virginia tried to curb the loss of jobs within the state by requiring the vendor to hire state employees for one year. This model proved too expensive for the vendors and was a significant factor in causing outsourcing efforts to fail.

Taxes – Sales between state agencies are exempt from sales tax. Agencies are charged only for the sales tax paid for the components that make up the service offering. Private-sector vendors would be required to charge retail sales tax on the total amount agencies pay for a given service.


Next Generation Network – (NGN)

DIS owns and manages a Statewide Optical Network that links five regional node sites for the purpose of providing high-speed fully redundant voice, data, and video services. These services are provided on a 24x7 basis to state, county, local, educational, tribal, qualified non-profits and public safety entities statewide.

DIS owns and manages the infrastructure of this network with the exception of the fiber optic cable used to connect the node sites. This fiber optic ring is comprised of two halves, a northern and a southern. The northern route uses existing infrastructure provided by the University of Washington. The southern route fiber is owned and maintained by Qwest.

DIS evaluated leasing fiber for the southern route. The cost to lease, provision, and maintain proved to be a significantly more expensive option. Maintenance costs were estimated to be more than $1 million annually to meet the availability requirements of this service.

Currently DIS pays the University of Washington $25,000 per month for the northern NGN route and Qwest $108,000 per month for the southern route. The strategy of utilizing existing state resources and supplementing vendor services where they are most cost effective lowers overall service cost.

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Current Contracting for Products and ServicesDIS currently contracts with private providers for products and services whenever it makes sense for the taxpayer and agency needs. The combination of technical expertise and project management experience makes DIS uniquely qualified to oversee these efforts.

Factors to consider:

DIS manages over 200 vendor contracts using the power of state volume purchasing to competitively acquire contracts which maximize values, while complying with the state’s IT investment standards.

The DIS Leasing Program significantly lowers technology costs on desktop PCs, laptops, and servers.

Centralized support savings. These operations are conducted with 14 FTEs within DIS, saving the costs of establishing individual agency contracts with individual vendors which is estimated at $15,000 - $30,000 per contract.


Proposed State Lease to Own Data Center:

125,000 sf data center and production facility located in Olympia on Wheeler Lot. Includes tenant improvements:

Estimated annual rent starts out at $13M per year and at year 7 goes to $15M per year.

Rental costs are fixed

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Private Sector State Data Center Lease OptionBuilding Basics:

125,000 sf total space required for the State Data Center needs

o 200kw/sf

o 60,000 raised floor facility

Factors to Consider:

Facility costs only – The above estimates do not include operations and maintenance costs.

Connectivity – Costs for network connectivity are not included in the private sector lease options. These costs would add significantly to the overall costs (at least $20M for initial connectivity).

Energy – Overall energy costs for data center operation will be reduced with agency moves to the State Data Center.


Example #1:

Private market rates (as of 2008) - facility in Washington rent plus Tenant Improvements for 125,000 sf data center:

Rents are higher. $17.75M for the first year, increasing to $18.5M by year 7

No control over future rent increases

Private developers subject to availability of financing

Example #2:

Private market rates (as of 2009) – facilities in California and Kentucky, includes rent plus power costs* for 125,000 sf data center:

$48M/ per year

No control over future rent increases

*based on current day energy rate

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Alternative Site AnalysisEastern Washington

Benefits

Lower land costs, lower power costs Good for homogenous computer environments – e.g., racks of identical servers

Challenges

Difficult to access for maintenance. State Data Center offers wide mix of technologies, including mainframe computers; servers; storage trays;

production support equipment; telephone equipment; networking equipment; and more, requiring easy and frequent access by DIS and customers. This could not be accomplished in an eastern Washington location.

Redesigning network infrastructure away from the Capitol Campus adds significant costs and may take up to 5 years to complete.

Washington State would still need a data center presence in Olympia. DIS currently maintains a data center presence with a private provider in eastern Washington for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes.

Harsher climate requires higher power needs for cooling and/or heating.

Cost Factors

Due to the remote location the cost to construct a new facility and infrastructure is greater including higher net labor costs and project funded costs.

Additional $20 million for initial networking costs, with annual recurring networking cost of $8 million. Land Costs Additional permitting and design costs associated with starting over.

Wheeler Site

Benefits

Highest concentration of DIS customers and state agencies. State Data Center offers wide mix of technologies, including mainframes computers; servers; storage

trays; production support equipment; telephone equipment; networking equipment; and more, which can be easily accessed by DIS and customers.

Centralized location reducing overall operating costs. DIS personnel available for quick, accurate troubleshooting or emergency response when necessary. Built in accordance with 2006 Capitol Campus Master Plan. Wage related costs are competitive in the Olympia area.


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Consolidation of DIS from 10 locations into one. Consolidation of at least 31 standalone data centers in Tumwater, Olympia, and Lacey into one. Land is already owned by the state. It is less expensive to develop and construct one integrated facility than it is to build stand-alone

projects. Design has progressed to the point that groundbreaking is ready to go – creating jobs and putting people

to work on the site almost immediately. Milder western Washington climate offers greater opportunity to use air-side economizer cooling than in

harsher climates, reducing the demand for power.

Challenges

Bond market affects cost of financing. High visibility location – everybody gets to see what’s going on. Although SEPA appeal was recently denied, possibility for appeal to the appeal ahead.

Cost Factors

Cost for development and construction is $262 million. Utilizing 63-20 financing shifts the cost of construction and financing risk to the private sector. Lease-to-own does not impact state’s debt limit. The state does not begin to pay rent until the project is substantially complete.

Renovation of Puyallup (Benaroya) facility

Benefits

Already built and available in Puyallup multi-building industrial park. Well-maintained building.

Challenges

Exceeds State Data Center floor space needs by over 100,000 sf. Need to segregate building from rest of complex for security needs. 35 miles from Capitol Campus, eliminating ability to centralize state components. Significantly increased commute times for data center staff. Ten-year old facility. Seismic rating is not up to standards or code. Back-up generators are insufficient for State Data Center requirements. Need to make significant upgrade to electrical feeds. SEPA process would need to be undertaken. Existing lighting and power distribution is insufficient and needs to be completely reconfigured. Security of the facility would need to be significantly enhanced. Floors would require total reconstruction to fill waffle slab and install new flooring.


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Cost Factors

Heating and maintenance costs for larger facility would raise costs. 10 year old existing equipment is out of warranty, including exhausts units, chillers, pumps, valve

operators and elevators. Costs for demolition, upgrade and construction of the 10 year old facility are the same as the proposed,

state-of-the-art facility in Olympia.

Tumwater location

Benefits

The site parking structures are designed and built with runoff retention below them - a similar solution will need to be built into the strategy for this site.

Challenges

Distance from Capitol Campus adversely impacts accessibility for state agencies.

There is a fuel storage tank farm located just across Linderson Way which may pose an extra security risk.

A 6” Olympic Pipeline Company gas pipeline in Center Street just west of the property poses an extra security risk.

The site has an extremely high water table that will require significant mitigation.

All existing parking that is displaced with the development will need to be replaced on the site – requiring a new parking structure to be added into the project which will significantly add to the project costs.

Lacey location

Benefits

Site is larger than the Wheeler site.

Challenges

Distance from Capitol Campus adversely impacts accessibility for state agencies.

Two small wetlands in the woods – project must avoid them or mitigate.

The sizeable “footprint” area of the DIS program is too great to fit in with the design guidelines for the site.

Plan is expected to eliminate most of the forested area of this site creating a significant ecological change that will need to be effectively mitigated.

Property is required to follow the Design Guidelines for St. Martin’s Park, January 1, 1991 as well as deed ‘Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions’.


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Development is required to allow a street connection from Desmond Drive adjacent to the site westward to connect to 3rd Ave – this will increase the development costs of this property.


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Alternative Site Analysis

Site Benefits Challenges Cost Factors

Wheeler Site

Highest concentration of DIS customers and state agencies

State Data Center offers wide mix of technologies, including mainframe computers; servers; storage trays; production support equipment; telephone equipment; networking equipment; and more, which can be easily accessed by DIS and customers.

Centralized location reduces overall operating costs.

DIS personnel available for quick, accurate, troubleshooting or emergency response when necessary.

Built in accordance with 2006 Capitol Campus Master Plan.

Wage related costs are competitive in the Olympia area.

Consolidation of DIS from 10 locations into one.

Consolidation of at least 31 standalone agency data centers in Tumwater, Olympia, and Lacey into one.

Land is already owned by state.

Groundbreaking is ready to go – creating jobs and putting 1,200 people to work on the site almost immediately.

Bond market fluctuations can affect financing timing.

High visibility location – everybody gets to see what’s going on.

Although SEPA appeal was recently denied, possibility for appeal to the appeal ahead.

Cost for development and construction is $262 million Utilizing 63-20 financing shifts the cost of construction and financing risk to the private sector.

Lease-to-own does not impact state’s debt limit. The state does not begin to pay rent until the project is substantially complete.

Qualifies for BABs financing from ARRA – resulting in $53 million in savings.


Site Benefits Challenges Cost Factors

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Eastern Washington

Lower land costs, lower power costs.

Good for homogenous computer environments – e.g., racks of identical servers.

Difficult to access for maintenance.

State Data Center offers wide mix of technologies, including mainframes computers; servers; storage trays; production support equipment; telephone equipment; networking equipment; and more, requiring easy and frequent access by DIS and customers. This could not be accomplished in an eastern Washington location.

Redesigning network infrastructure away from Capitol Campus adds significant costs and may take up to 5 years to complete.

Washington State would still need a data center presence in Olympia. DIS currently maintains a data center presence with a private provider in eastern Washington for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes.

Harsher climate requires higher power needs for cooling and/or heating.

Additional $20 million for initial costs, with annual recurring cost of $8 million.

Cost of purchasing land in area is approx. $7sf, requiring an additional expenditure of $5million.

Additional permitting and design costs associated with starting over.

Additional power infrastructure required for site (since Wheeler location is immediately adjacent to a substation), will cost an additional $5 – 10 million.

Delay required for redesign and land purchase will disqualify the project for BABs financing - $53.million loss

Renovation of Puyallup Facility

Already built and available in Puyallup multi-building industrial park.

Exceeds State Data Center floor space needs by over 100,000 sf.

Heating and maintenance costs for larger facility would


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Well-maintained building. Need to segregate building from rest of complex for security needs.

35 miles from Capitol Campus, eliminating ability to centralize state components.

Significantly increased commute time for data center staff.

Ten-year old facility.

Seismic rating is not up to standards or code.

Back-up generators are insufficient for State Data Center requirements.

Need to make significant upgrade to electrical feed.

SEPA process would need to be undertaken.

Existing lighting and power distribution is insufficient and need to be completely reconfigured.

Security of the facility would need to be significantly enhanced.

Floors would require total reconstruction to fill waffle slab and install new flooring.

raise costs.

10 year old existing equipment is out of warranty, including exhausts units, chillers, pumps, valve operators, and elevators.Costs for demolition, upgrade and construction of the 10 year old facility are the same as the proposed, state-of-the-art facility in Olympia.


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Wheeler Site vs. other Thurston County locations

Three state-owned properties were identified in the Master Plan for the Capitol of the State of Washington (June 2006) as meeting capacity to host DIS facilities:

Opportunity Site #9: Wheeler Parking Lot

Lacey Satellite Campus, Site L1 - West of Ecology Building

Tumwater Satellite Campus, Site T2 - West of Goodrich Building

In the pre-development study a series of weighted criteria were developed by Perkins + Will to evaluate potential sites for a new Data Center facility. Each site was graded through a series of site visits, site documentation review, and discussions with various agencies or utilities.

The selection criteria used were defined as:

High priorities: Development Cost Utility Infrastructure Capacity Proximity to Major Customers

Medium priorities: Security risk Sustainable Opportunities - Site Reuse Sustainable Opportunities – Transportation

Low priorities: Zoning Constraints/Buildable Area Impact on Existing Context 24/7 Emergency Access Expansion Potential


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Results from Site Evaluation Study (higher values represent the better site for the criteria)

Site Selection Wheeler Site Lacey Site Tumwater Site

Criteria

Development cost 15 18 21

Utility infrastructure capacity

Power supply and redundancy 30 18 18

Fiber 30 21 24

Proximity to major customers 30 12 9

Security 20 20 20

Sustainable opportunities

Site reuse 20 0 20

Public transportation / walking 20 10 4

Zoning constraints / buildable area 7 6 9

Impact on existing context 8 4 10

24 / 7 emergency access 10 5 5

Expansion beyond initial project 5 6 6

Total score 195 120 146


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Why Wheeler?

The Cost of Change

Under direction of the Legislature, the Wheeler Lot project has undergone intense pre-design, design, and development activities over the last 36 months to be ready for groundbreaking this spring. Halting or moving this project now would result in significant loss of time and investment in the project. These include:

Time and loss of jobs stimulus. Groundbreaking for the Wheeler Lot project could begin within a matter of weeks after legislative approval, providing 1,200 jobs through the length of the project. Moving the location would delay the project and government reform for technology a minimum of 3 years.

The Wheeler Lot project qualifies for Build America Bonds (or “BABs”), which are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The savings realized for project financing for the project will be $1.9 million per year or $53 million overall. Availability is limited: the bonds must be awarded within the next two years, with construction starting within that time. Only the Wheeler Lot option would qualify.

Money. Work that has been done over the last 3 years would have to be repeated: issuance of a new RFP and contract negotiations for selected developer; project design; landscape design; project engineering; space planning; SEPA permitting and reviews; network connections; Committee approvals (CCDAC, SCC, and Finance); legislative approvals; financing documents; and soils testing.

Non-recoverable costs as of March 15, 2009:Fund 057 $ 1,400,000 ($2M planning fund)Fund 419 (Bond reimbursable) $ 10,400,000 (pre development)Cancellation Fees $ 1,500,000 (to developer)Total $13,300,000

State staff time >10,000 hours

Additional Points for Consideration: The estimated guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for the State Data Center and Office Building on the

Wheeler Lot has been reduced to $242 million (from $262 million). This includes facility design, site development, network connectivity, utilities, land, and construction costs.

Estimates for relocating the project to another location in Thurston County increase the GMP by a minimum of $80 - $87 million.

Estimates for relocating the project to a location in Eastern Washington, increases the GMP by a minimum of $91 - $98 million.


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The Wheeler Lot is adjacent to a power substation. Moving the State Data Center away from this location will immediately raise utility connection costs by $5 - 10 million.

If the data center and office building were separated, development, construction and on-going costs for would significantly increase. In the current project configuration, the office building and the data center have been integrated in their design to share costs and efficiently manage construction.

Project design is now 100% complete for the Wheeler Lot site. Design costs to date for the project on the Wheeler Lot site is $15 million. These costs will be incorporated into the bond sale and will not be paid through operating funds.

If the state reconfigures the project to another site or stops the project altogether, Washington taxpayers will be obligated to cover $13.3 million in non-recoverable costs out of the current budget.

Every month of delay to this project costs the state approximately $1.5 million.


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Parking at Wheeler Existing Parking. There are approximately 330 parking stalls on the Wheeler Lot, 150 of which were designated for use by the occupants of the small office buildings on the property. The remaining stalls are for DASH shuttle users and visitors to the Capitol Campus.

New Parking. In the new Wheeler Lot project, parking will be available in an underground garage and surface lots, totaling 320 stalls. These stalls will include leased parking available to employees as well as visitor stalls.

Utilize Parking Capacity. The Wheeler project is well-suited to take advantage of parking capacity available in the adjacent Plaza Parking garage, rather than paying to build parking on site.

DASH Parking. Today, users of Intercity Transit’s DASH shuttle may park on the Wheeler Lot in a 56-stall area designated for such use. With the new Wheeler Lot project, approximately 40 of these stalls will be relocated across the street, to a parking lot currently occupied by the Department of Transportation. General Administration intends to develop an additional 25-35 stall DASH parking lot in a parking lot adjacent to the ProArts building (north of the NRB building, across 11th Avenue). Both of these new parking lots are on the DASH route.

Existing Use of Parking on Site. Daily parking counts of the Wheeler parking lot undertaken during the 2007 Legislative session and a campus-wide parking study indicate that this parking lot was largely underutilized. Daily counts found that normal occupancy levels of the DASH lot during session averaged less than 10 stalls; the campus visitors’ area averaged less than 40.


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Cost Recovery Summarized Recommendations

FY16, the expense of the Wheeler project is 7% of the total DIS budget. Cost of the Wheeler project does not increase

The additional expense for the Wheeler project will be offset by FYI 16 through efficiencies, economies of scale (government

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