Iron Mountain's GSA schedule: rates by fiscal year
Iron Mountain holds GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract GS-03F-049GA under SIN 518210 ERM, Federal Data Center Colocation Services, running through March 9, 2027. The published price list sets rates for each government fiscal year in advance, so the current year's number is a matter of public record rather than negotiation folklore.
| Configuration | GFY2025 | GFY2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 4.99 kW FISMA-High cabinet, Boyers PA | $1,840.74/mo | $1,895.96/mo |
| 4.99 kW FISMA-High cabinet, Northborough MA | $1,879.71/mo | $1,936.10/mo |
| 14.40 kW cabinet | $4,415.17/mo | Rising to $5,065.80 by GFY2027 |
| 80 kW cage | $22,370.19/mo | Rising to $25,666.74 |
| 2,000 kW | $507,744.52/mo | Rising to $582,567.46 |
The cabinet specification, in the contract's own words: FISMA High, cabinet with two 208V 30A circuits (A and B feed), 4.99 kW maximum electrical consumption against a 6.24 kW rating. That is a real, comparable spec, which is what makes these numbers useful as a benchmark.
Source: Iron Mountain GSA price list, Modification 0061, rate tables at pages 141 to 147. Contract status confirmed active in GSA eLibrary. These are published schedule rates, not transaction prices: a task order can be negotiated below schedule.
Nine carriers, one identical rack spec
GSA's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle (GS00Q17NSD3000) publishes awarded unit prices for Colocated Hosting Service by vendor. Every price below buys the same defined thing: a full rack of six shelves at 72 by 19 by 32 inches, including basic power, for the year running October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026.
| Vendor | Full rack, monthly | Install, one-time |
|---|---|---|
| MetTel | $1,147.02 | $2,294.07 |
| Comcast | $1,282.36 | $2,552.03 |
| L3Harris | $1,322.21 | $2,453.34 |
| AT&T | $1,359.61 | $2,180.32 |
| Verizon Federal | $1,400.48 | $2,460.92 |
| BT Federal | $1,456.18 | $2,452.49 |
| AOC Connect | $1,512.81 | $2,577.06 |
| Granite | $1,542.73 | $2,577.06 |
| Lumen | $1,614.37 | $1,720.56 |
Same specification, same buyer, same year, and a 41% spread between the cheapest and most expensive vendor. The prior year is published too, which shows the escalation directly: AT&T was $1,329.11 and MetTel $1,121.29 in the FY2025 band. Note also that the vendor with the highest monthly rate has the lowest install charge, which is exactly the tradeoff a normalized comparison is supposed to catch.
Source: GSA EIS Public Pricer, CLIN CH12003 (monthly) and CH11003 (install).
Cross-connects, circuits and remote hands
The extras are where quotes diverge most, and both vehicles price them explicitly.
| Item | Published rate | Vehicle |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-connect | $122.96 each | Iron Mountain GSA, GFY2026 |
| Fiber cross-connect, monthly | $44.46 to $688.22 | EIS, AT&T low, Lumen and Granite high |
| Twisted-pair cross-connect, monthly | $19.65 to $46.62 | EIS |
| Dark fiber, one pair | $6,830.91 | Iron Mountain GSA, GFY2026 |
| Remote hands, hourly | $157.11/hr | Iron Mountain GSA, GFY2026 |
| 120V circuit and install | $391.29 one-time | Iron Mountain GSA, GFY2025 |
| 208V single-phase circuit and install | $523.92 one-time | Iron Mountain GSA, GFY2025 |
| 208V three-phase circuit and install | $656.56 one-time | Iron Mountain GSA, GFY2025 |
The fiber cross-connect line deserves a second look: fifteen times the price from the most expensive vendor to the cheapest, for a physically identical connection. On a deployment with a dozen cross-connects that single line item outweighs the difference in rack rate.
How government rates compare to commercial pricing
Set the public numbers beside the commercial ones on our colocation pricing page and the picture is consistent rather than contradictory.
- Equinix reported average monthly recurring revenue of $2,538 per cabinet in Q2 2026. The federal 4.99 kW cabinet at $1,895.96 sits below that, which fits: Equinix's average includes far denser and more interconnected deployments.
- Published commercial list prices for a full cabinet run roughly $600 to $2,325 depending on metro and power. The EIS band of $1,147 to $1,614 lands inside it.
- Government pricing is not automatically cheaper. It is knowable, which is the actual advantage. A quote you can compare against a published federal rate for a defined spec is a quote you can argue with.
Ask your provider to quote the same defined configuration the federal contracts use: a full cabinet with dual 208V 30A A/B circuits at roughly 5 kW, cross-connects priced per connection, and remote hands at an hourly rate. Then compare like for like against the numbers above.
What the public record does not contain
Honesty about the gaps matters more than a longer table.
- No public sector per-kW or per-square-foot rate exists. On EIS, 15 of the 41 Colocated Hosting line items are Individual Case Basis with no published price, and they are precisely the ones that would yield those rates: non-basic power, custom build-out, SCIF space, per-cabinet and per-cage items.
- Federal award records carry no unit pricing. SAM.gov contract data became the sole public federal award repository when GSA decommissioned the public FPDS site and ezSearch on February 24, 2026. It publishes agency, vendor, contract number, dates and aggregate dollars, with no unit price, quantity or line-item detail.
- State and local records are usually silent on price. Tarrant County, Texas lists the value of its colocation contract as "Per Contract Terms." Pennsylvania Treasury's colocation RFP publishes the full rate structure with every dollar field blank.
Named public sector colocation contracts
Useful for seeing who buys colocation and from whom, even where pricing is withheld.
| Buyer | Vendor | Record | Pricing published |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAA, William J. Hughes Technical Center | Equinix | 692M15-26-C-00003, posted May 11 2026, firm-fixed-price, five-year term | None. Notice of intent to award, sole source. The FAA states it will migrate colocation customers to cloud within the term. |
| Tarrant County, Texas | CyrusOne LLC | RFP F2026030, Amendment No. 1 before Commissioners Court May 12 2026 | None. Value reads "Per Contract Terms." |
| Pennsylvania Treasury | Out to bid | RFP25-002, issued May 9 2025, four-year term targeted to start February 28 2026 | Rate structure and specs only, no dollars. Requires quotes on 48U cabinets, 208V 30A dual-feed circuits, cross-connects and bandwidth tiers. |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | Iron Mountain | Task order riding GS-03F-049GA | Yes, indirectly: the underlying schedule rates above. |
Records verified at SAM.gov, the Tarrant County public notice portal, and Pennsylvania Treasury RFP25-002. Historically the FAA bought colocation as a subcontracted line item under FAA Cloud Services contract DTFACT-15-D-00003 (General Dynamics IT, 2015), with Equinix as subcontractor, which is why no per-cabinet rate appears in the prime award record.
Benchmark your quote against a published rate.
Send the configuration and the number you were given. We will normalize it against these federal rates and current commercial market bands, then tell you where it actually sits.