Pergravis, LLC Awarded $10.8 Million Dollar Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Critical UPS Battery and Equipment Services (CUBES) Contract

Tampa, FL – Monday, April 9, 2012 - Pergravis, LLC, a Tampa, Florida based critical facilities services firm, announced today that it was awarded a $10.8 Million Dollar (contract life) contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for maintenance of uninterruptable power supply (UPS) systems at sites across the United States.

Pergravis will supply DISA with periodic preventative maintenance service and thermographic inspections on numerous UPS systems and their related battery strings. The contract has a one year period of performance with four additional one-year options.

Speaking from Pergravis Tampa headquarters, Managing Director Dominick Rappa said, “We are very pleased to have the opportunity to serve DISA and the Agency’s mission. This award validates our unique service delivery model that provides best of breed services at a highly competitive price which is essential in today’s Federal contracting environment.”

Data Center World Spring 2012

We've been attending Data Center World Spring 2012 the last few days and DCIM seems to be the breakout technology/buzzword this year.  The number of vendors with DCIM offerings is impressive.  As data center managers have made improvements to cooling hardware, implemented containment solutions, etc. it seems that environmental data gathering, analysis and infrastructure control is now the low hanging fruit in pursuit of greater data center efficiency.

The feature sets vary considerable among the products we saw and time will tell which will ultimately dominate the DCIM market.  Our prediction is that several contenders will emerge with the key differentiators being price point and feature sets optimized for the small, medium and large enterprise markets.