boards as part of the american recovery and reinvestment act of two thousand and nine s s a received a five hundred million dollars appropriation for a new national board center to replace the existing national computer center and would last as a turn to g s a for assistance in locating designing and building this new national support center which will meet the agency's requirement for redundancy and expansion needs for long term needs based on initial capacity studies we are planning to construct a facility of approximately three hundred thousand where they will include data office warehouse space we're using a multi phased approach to the construction of the facility ensuring that site and design criteria development are concurrent and interrelated with respect to site selection g s a is committed to researching evaluating and selecting a site that can best serve the interests of the federal government the end users and the community there are many factors associated with selecting and acquiring a site construction in a data center creates additional challenges in august two thousand and nine g s a requested expressions of interest from land owners and authorized agents through a fed does ops notice we also contacted local economic development and planning groups regarding our search which produced over one hundred fifty potential sites these locations were screened against a number of mandatory criteria that included land area and geography proximity to s s a headquarters and roadway access available and utility infrastructure cultural and historic resources proximity to security hazards and proximity to environmental hazards or are these sites where the narrowed down based on further evaluation of proximity to power and site character are next steps include a more detailed analysis of potential locations to closely examine utility and fiber availability security environmental impact development costs and potential schedule and the site selection remains on schedule for purchase and march two thousand and ten with respect to requirements development g s a is currently working with jacob syllabi to conduct a full analysis of the s s a data center building and housing plan in july two thousand and nine g s a brought the mc consultants on board to assist in developing a design for the building that is versatile and flexible enough to serve s s a information technology needs for the long term e m c has developed a growth model for equipment requirements through two thousand and thirty three which takes into account both s s a historical data as well as industry trends toward newark your equipment technology as i say concurred on this growth model and october two thousand and nine we're now working collaboratively with both e m c and jacobs to develop a space power cooling data center master plan the program of requirements is progressing toward a fifty percent report at the end of december two thousand and nine once a location is selected site specific design directives will be incorporated into the program of requirements and p o r completion is scheduled for august two thousand and ten once we acquire the site we will begin developing the solicitation for a design build contract based on the finalized program of requirements at the same time we will continue developing the design criteria specific to the selected location we will then a contractor to both design and build the facility we anticipate contract award for design is the same schedule we provided to the committee back in april and included in our recovery program plan and we are still confident that we can deliver on schedule there are a number of steps we are taking to minimize risks throughout this process we screening possible helping us to identify potential impacts early in the process and our partnerships with ensuring that we will provide a flexible facility design capable of accommodating expansion mission related changes and advances in i could figure out how to utilize it it's difficult to figure out where to start there have been a number of studies done on this campus and on this project say that you know it's clear that mistakes have been made we went back after our last meeting with the committee and we were asked we were asked how the compares to the site criteria that we were using for the selection we went back  spaces including parking associated with the data center we did several tests in different places on the site to see how well the data center would sit there  it is incorrect to say that the data center cannot be built on the existing campus it clearly can be in our opinion it's not the best solution  there are i think there isn't there is there is a presumption that using the existing campus would save so much money and land cost that we should do it for cost reasons there is no identifiable cost advantage to being on the campus it will probably cost more because of the need to create parking garages or structure parking of other kind which will actually cost more than the cost of acquiring a  site there is clearly an increased complexity both in design and in construction that will add to the schedule for the day it's much easier to design and there are on the site well clearly what we can do it is not impossible to build it there it will be quicker and cheaper to build it somewhere else how many cars are you talking about  in a traditional construction project we contract for design separately we get a complete design and then we compete that design for construction in a design build project we hire one contractor to do both the design and the fairly critically sloped which makes the development of the site more expensive and more complicated most of the flat area the existing campus is currently developed we would be probably when we as a as we expand construction on the campus we would be building on existing parking lot structure parking in other places at the expense of because of that it also requires that we phase construction which affects schedule on the site of anything that we do if we if we put the exist if we do something for the computer center on the existing site we would we would be taking away some of the possibility of further developing the site in the future for additional office related space like what's on the campus now that actually and in our opinion would be a mistake because we already have  a lot of the least square footage in buildings that kind of bring the campus and the long term master plan for the campus we would like to see that become government because this is really a facility that will be around we need to do further study on it there's a chance it would be torn down but the likelihood is that it would end up being converted to get rid of all of that wiring in there i mean we would certainly have to get rid of some of it yes building and we're also talking about a need for i've heard that from all of you today building on the campus difficulties that we will not experience with elsewhere that will less expensive to keep it on site or to move it to a new location number two is which is safer for everything that it entails to keep it on versus the analysis would go something like this if we build a facility off site we will not have a backhoe running into existing wiring or something like that which we may or may not know about if we build on site we will certainly do everything we can with respect to the plans that we have for what's underground and that sort of thing already