The Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration is seeking information from vendors to guide the development of a potential future solicitation for a cloud-based data warehouse and reporting environment. The environment should be user-friendly, cost-effective, scalable, secure, and accessible, and support advanced analytics, public-facing reporting, and internal operational reporting needs for human resources and financial data. Vendors are invited to provide technical, functional, and cost details of their solutions. The key requirements for the solution include a cloud-based data warehouse platform, data integration and connectivity, reporting and analytics capabilities, security and compliance, accessibility and usability standards, scalability and performance, and support and maintenance. • The solution should be hosted on a recognized, industry-leading cloud platform. • The solution should have scalable storage and compute capacity to handle growing volumes of data. • The solution should have high availability and robust disaster recovery capabilities. • The solution should be able to ingest data from a variety of sources. • The solution should have comprehensive internal reporting capabilities and public-facing reporting functions. • The solution should have advanced analytics features, including predictive modeling, trend analysis, and data visualization. • The solution should have role-based access controls and user-friendly reporting interfaces. • The solution should be compliant with OIT security standards and state and federal data privacy regulations. • The solution should have secure data-sharing mechanisms for internal and external stakeholders. • The solution should be compliant with State of Colorado Accessibility Standards and have an intuitive user interface design. • The solution should be able to scale horizontally and vertically as data volumes grow. • The solution should have comprehensive vendor support and clear service-level agreements.