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school East Grand School District 2
IFCB Posted : Dec 29, 2015
Bid Deadline : Tuesday, Jan 26, 2016

Questions Due By : Tuesday, Jan 19, 2016
Applicant Address : Granby, CO 80446
IFCB ID : 160014332

IFCB Requirements :
 ·         All Questions and Bids must be submitted using the on-line IFCB system. If for some reason the system is down before the respective deadline, please email your bid to info@crwconsulting.com or fax it to 918.445.0049. Bids or questions submitted in this fashion will be disqualified if the on-line system is active at the time of submission.
 
·         Bidder must agree to participate in USF Program (AKA “E-rate”) for the corresponding funding year.
 
·         Please include the correct Service Provider Identification Number (SPIN) on your bid.
 
·         By submitting a bid, bidder certifies that the bidder does have a valid (non-red light status) SPIN for the E-rate program at the time of submission. Should the Applicant discover that the bidder is on red light status, or if the FCC classifies the bidder as on red-light status before work is performed and invoices are paid, the contract will be null and void and the applicant will have no payment obligations to the bidder.
 
·         Bidder is expected to provide the lowest corresponding price per E-rate rules.  See http://www.usac.org/sl/service-providers/step02/lowest-corresponding-price.aspx for details.
 
·         Contracts must not prohibit SPIN changes.
 
·         Bidder must agree to provide the Applicant the choice of discount methods (SPI or BEAR).
 
·         Bidder will be automatically disqualified if the District determines that the bidding company has offered any employee of the District any individual gift of more than $20 or gifts totaling more than $50 within a 12 month period.
 
·         All contracts awarded will be contingent upon E-rate funding and final board approval.  The applicant may choose to do all or part of the project upon funding notification.
 
·         All contracts awarded under this IFCB bidding process may be voluntarily renewed by the applicant, upon written notice to the provider, for five consecutive one year terms.
 
·         Prices must be held firm for the duration of the associated E-rate Funding Year(s) or until all work associated with the project is complete (including any contract and USAC approved extensions).
 
·         E-rate rules require applicants to evaluate the cost of eligible goods and services, and to cost-allocate out the amount for ineligible services from their funding request. If your company will be bidding bundled data and voice plans, please identify the amount to be cost-allocated out for the ineligible data, text messaging functions or other bundled ineligible services.
 
·         E-rate rules require applicants to evaluate the cost of eligible goods and services, and to cost-allocate out the amount for ineligible services from their funding request. If your company will be bidding local phone service, please identify the amount to be cost-allocated out for the ineligible services - DID lines, voice mail, caller ID, inside wire maintenance, 900 call blocking, or other bundled ineligible services.
 
·         E-rate rules require applicants to evaluate the cost of eligible goods and services, and to cost-allocate out the amount for ineligible services from their funding request. If your company will be bidding internet access service, please identify the amount to be cost-allocated out for the ineligible services – email service, web hosting, content filtering, or other bundled ineligible services.
 
·         INTERNET ACCESS DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR: Any and all installation charges must be identified on your bid. If you submit a bid indicating that installation charges may apply without listing those charges, we will consider your bid incomplete and disqualify your bid.
 
·         NETWORK UPGRADE/CATEGORY 2 – VENDORS WISHING TO SUBMIT BIDS FOR THE CATEGORY TWO PROJECT MUST ATTEND ONE OF TWO MANDATORY SITE VISITS.  BIDS RECEIVED FROM VENDORS WHO DID NOT ATTEND EITHER MEETING WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.
 
·         Service providers are required to bid an entire project – Project A, B, C, D, E and/or F. Bids for individual components of any projects will be disqualified.
 
·         DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR: Vendors are required to submit bids via the template “Internal connections – Template V15 – 1” for each individual school that is receiving equipment and a separate template for all shared equipment.  Please name each template for the name of the school and project.  Example:  “Smith Elementary School Wireless Project” or “Wireless project shared equipment for all schools.”  Vendors that do not submit bids in the required template format will be disqualified from the process.
 
·         If the Applicant is requesting bids for equipment with specific make and model numbers listed, the Applicant will also accept bids for functionally equivalent equipment.

Services and Equipment Requested :
 Local Phone Service – 22 lines. E-rate rules require applicants to evaluate the cost of eligible goods and services, and to cost-allocate out the amount for ineligible services from their funding request. If your company will be bidding local phone service, please identify the amount to be cost-allocated out for the ineligible services - DID lines, voice mail, caller ID, inside wire maintenance, 900 call blocking, or other bundled ineligible services.
 
Long Distance Service – 22 lines, average 1,800 minutes used per month
 
Cellular Phone Service – 5 lines. E-rate rules require applicants to evaluate the cost of eligible goods and services, and to cost-allocate out the amount for ineligible services from their funding request. If your company will be bidding bundled data and voice plans, please identify the amount to be cost-allocated out for the ineligible data, text messaging functions or other bundled ineligible services.
 
Internet Access – Applicant is considering upgrading from 100 Mb Fiber/Metro-e to 300 Mb Fiber/Metro-e type bandwidth. Please also include bids for 200 Mb bandwidth. The terminating address for this circuit is 15 Eastom, Fraser, CO 80442; (970)726. Please provide separate pricing for any installation, activation, or initial configuration. E-rate rules require applicants to evaluate the cost of eligible goods and services, and to cost-allocate out the amount for ineligible services from their funding request. If your company will be bidding internet access service, please identify the amount to be cost-allocated out for the ineligible services – email service, web hosting, content filtering, or other bundled ineligible services. Any and all installation charges must be identified on your bid. If you submit a bid indicating that installation charges may apply without listing those charges, we will consider your bid incomplete and disqualify your bid.
 
Internet Access –100 Mb HIS/DSL/Fiber/Metro-e type bandwidth. The terminating address for this circuit is 202 Topaz Ave, Granby, CO 80446. Please provide separate pricing for any installation, activation, or initial configuration. E-rate rules require applicants to evaluate the cost of eligible goods and services, and to cost-allocate out the amount for ineligible services from their funding request. If your company will be bidding internet access service, please identify the amount to be cost-allocated out for the ineligible services – email service, web hosting, content filtering, or other bundled ineligible services. Any and all installation charges must be identified on your bid. If you submit a bid indicating that installation charges may apply without listing those charges, we will consider your bid incomplete and disqualify your bid.
 
CATEGORY TWO MANDATORY SITE VISIT:
 
PROVIDERS WISHING TO BID ON THE CATEGORY TWO PROJECTS MUST ATTEND ONE OF TWO MANDATORY WALKTHROUGHS SCHEDULED ON JANUARY 7, 2016 AT 9:30 AM AND JANUARY 11, 2016 AT 1:30 PM. MEET AT THE EAST GRAND SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICE, 299 COUNTY ROAD 611, GRANBY, CO 80446 FOR BOTH DATES. BIDS RECEIVED FROM VENDORS WHO DID NOT ATTEND EITHER MEETING WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.
 
 
CATEGORY TWO PROJECT DETAILS -:
There are two documents available for download (C2 – Meraki – Option 1 and C2 – Extreme and Palo Alto – Option 2). Applicant will only be doing either Option 1 or Option 2, not both. Within each option, there are three projects – Project A, B and C in Option 1 and Project D, E and F in Option2:
OPTION 1:
Project A – Meraki firewalls
Project B – Meraki switches
Project C – Meraki WAP
OPTION 2:
Project D – Palo Alto Firewall
Project E – Extreme switches
Project F – Extreme WAP
Applicant will accept bids for functional equivalents when a preferred make/manufacturer is listed. Service providers are required to bid an entire project – Project A, B, C, D, E and/or F. Bids for individual components of any projects will be disqualified.
 
 
CATEGORY TWO DISQUALIFICATION FACTORS:
 
Vendors are required to submit bids via the template “Internal connections – Template V15 – 1”  for each individual school that is receiving equipment.  Please name each template for the name of the school and project.  Example:  “Smith Elementary School Wireless Project” or “Wireless project shared equipment for all schools.”  Vendors that do not submit bids in the required template format will be disqualified from the process.
 
VENDORS WISHING TO SUBMIT BIDS FOR THE CATEGORY TWO PROJECTS MUST ATTEND ONE OF TWO MANDATORY SITE VISITS.
 
Service providers are required to bid an entire project – Project A, B, C, D, E and/or F. Bids for individual components of any projects will be disqualified.
 
We would also like for providers bidding on Category Two projects to also submit your bids in normal format – a word/excel/PDF as you normally would. The winning Category Two vendor(s) will be required to complete, for each school and all shared equipment, the 2016 USAC C2 Templates when they become available.  Once available, the templates will be due in a 14 day time period.

There is an additional document associated with this IFCB. Please click the buttons to download the document.

C2MerakiOption1.pdf
C2ExtremeandPaloAltoOption2.pdf
InternalConnectionsTemplateV15197.xlsm
InstructionsforC2Bids92.pdf

Questions Received with Applicant Answers   ( Ask Questions? )




Project A – West Grand Elementary Switches: *Switches 2 - x Extreme/Enterasys or functional equivalent. -How many ports will you need? -Will PoE from these switches be used to power the AP’s? -If switches are to be PoE, must the switch be able to deliver full power across every port [regardless of port quantity]? Project B – West Grand Middle School WAPs: *WAPS 8 - x Extreme/Enterasys or functional equivalent. -What is the expected user density per AP? -If these will not be powered by the above switches, how will they be powered? -How will these be mounted?

Answer:

I think you submitted these questions on the wrong IFCB – this IFCB is for East Grand school district, not West Grand.