A city utility discovers during a substation outage that its hot-site contract expired six months earlier and nobody tracked the renewal. What maintenance lesson should leadership take from the lapse?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A hot site on paper that nobody renewed is just a binder and a hope. Treat the contract like a smoke detector battery—if you don’t check the date, it fails the day you need it. Active renewal tracking keeps the recovery door unlocked.
Full Explanation
Disaster recovery site arrangements are not set-and-forget procurements. Contracts lapse, pricing changes, and capacity commitments can expire without notice unless owners track renewals. Organizations should assign renewal ownership, calendar milestones, and verification that the contracted capability still matches recovery needs before an outage exposes the gap.