All bid deadlines are 11:59pm Pacific Time the date of the bid deadline listed unless otherwise noted.
· Bidder must agree to participate in USF Program (AKA “E-rate”) for the corresponding funding year.
· Bids must identify all fees and charges (including installation charges, if applicable) that will be assessed to the Applicant to procure the services or equipment included in your bid.
· 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. Please include this language in your final contract.
· 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.
· If bidding Category 2: E-rate rules require Category Two budgets to be calculated by each individual school. In order to accurately track those budgets, please break up your bid by each school.
· DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR C2: Service providers are required to bid the entire hardware project/upgrade. Bids for individual components of the project/upgrade will be disqualified.
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Will need two switches Pro curve brand (or functional equivalent), 48 port Pro E. We should not have listed the antennas or related components, do not bid these items.
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Nothing in the way of antennas after all. Will need two switches Pro curve brand (or functional equivalent), 48 port Pro E. 1 wall mount and 1 rack mount not lockable, depth-16 in. We would like Cat 6 cable.
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No. No controller needed. Cabling drops= 64.
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We would need two switches - Pro curve (or functional equivalent) brand. Cabling needs to be installed. We are no longer pursuing the cabling antennas, connectors and related equipment – vendors should not bid those items.
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We are not discussing the project over the phone, if you have questions please submit them via the web site or attend one of the scheduled voluntary walk-throughs.
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We are not requesting hosted VOIP service.
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Thank you for your question. The district does not need wireless access points and the 470 did not request any wireless access points. We did request equipment in the category of “connectors, antennas and related components.” We are not requesting any access points or any cabling for wireless access points. We no longer need any of the connectors that we had originally anticipated needing for the phone system.
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No they do not all terminate at one location. At the K-8 building there are approximately 41 phones and at the H.S. Building there are approximately 24 phones.
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If the proposed Cisco solution is functionally equivalent to the HP switches requested, then yes. Wall mount rack, large enough to hold 1 of the switches.
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The 21 are at the H.S.