Lowrey School District 10

All bid deadlines are 11:59pm Pacific Time the date of the bid deadline listed unless otherwise noted.

IFCB Posted : Nov 13, 2017

Bid Deadline : Tuesday, Dec 19, 2017

Questions Due By : Wednesday, Nov 22, 2017

Applicant Address : Tahlequah, OK 74464

IFCB ID : 180004557

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. Please include this language in your final contract.

· All applicable fees, surcharges, and taxes must be identified on the bid. E-rate rules require the applicants to evaluate the price of eligible goods and services that will be listed on the 471 application during the competitive bidding process. Fees and surcharges that apply but are not listed on the bid will be the responsibility of the bidding company, should their bid be awarded.

· 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.

· DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR BMIC: Vendors must complete and include the C2 Cover Page with their bid. Bids received without the cover page will be disqualified.

DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR BMIC - Maintenance bids listing only an hourly rate and not a monthly or annual total will be disqualified. Vendors quoting an hourly rate are required to also a) confirm that you have the ability/expertise to maintain all of the equipment listed and b) propose a number of hours at a particular rate monthly to properly maintain the entire list of equipment. Bids that contain only hourly rates, without confirmation that the company can service the list of equipment, or without a monthly total will be disqualified.

Services and Equipment Requested :

UPDATE: 12/8/17 9:47AM- The bid deadline extension has been extended to 12/19/17.

UPDATE 11/14/17 - BMIC FOR SWITCHES HAS BEEN ADDED, 470 # 180004730

Cellular Phone Service- 4 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.

INTERNAL CONNECTIONS

Type of Equipment

School Name

Specific Quantity

Make/Manufacturer

Switches

Lowrey Public School

Cisco Catalyst 2960X-48FPS-L

Wireless Access Points

Lowrey Public School

Apple Extreme Airport

Please include BMIC for the switches as well.

COMPATIBILITY REQUIREMENT

Switches must be compatible with Cisco Access Gateway Switch Catalyst 4200 series, Juniper SRX240, and Cisco Unified 500 series.

DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR INTERNAL CONNECTIONS: It will be the bidder’s responsibility to provide documentation about the compatibility requirements listed in this IFCB. Vendors that submit bids without documentation demonstrating the required compatibility listed in this IFCB will have their bids disqualified, unless that vendor has bid the preferred make/model number listed.

DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR INTERNAL CONNECTIONS: Vendors must complete and include the C2 Cover Page with their bid. Bids received without the cover page will be disqualified.

DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR INTERNAL CONNECTIONS: Applicant will not accept bids for refurbished equipment. Any bids containing refurbished equipment will be disqualified.

DISQUALIFICATION FACTOR INTERNAL CONNECTIONS: Bids that include equipment that was manufactured for use outside of the United States will be disqualified.

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

2018C2BiddingInstructions29.docx
LOWREYC2COVERPAGE.pdf

Bid deadline has been reached.

Questions Received with Applicant Answers ( Ask Questions? )

Are you actually requesting equipment and BMIC for that equipment? If so, you only currently have the BMIC as an item and not the actual Internal Connections. Or are you looking for SmartNet for the Cisco switches? Can you clarify the Cat 2 items please?

Answer:
We are requesting the purchase of the switches and the maintenance of those switches. There are two 470s for this IFCB, one includes the Internal Connections and the other is BMIC.

Does the district require a service provider to bid on both line items. Our desire would be to bid solely on the switches.

Answer:
It is not required for the service provider to bid on both line items.

Question deadline has been reached.