All bid deadlines are 11:59pm Pacific Time the date of the bid deadline listed unless otherwise noted.
Type of Equipment
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School Name
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Number of Devices Vendor Should Bid
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Preferred Make/Manufacturer
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Wireless Controller
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District Shared
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1
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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Cabling
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Elementary
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15
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Drops for access points
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Racks
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Elementary
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2
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No Preference
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Wireless Access Points
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Elementary
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15
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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Cabling
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Junior High
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8
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Drops for access points
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Racks
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Junior High
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1
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No Preference
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Wireless Access Points
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Junior High
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8
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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Cabling
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High School
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10
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Drops for access points
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Racks
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High School
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1
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No Preference
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Wireless Access Points
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High School
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10
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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Type of Equipment
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School Name
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Number of Devices Vendor Should Bid
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Preferred Make/Manufacturer
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Wireless Controller
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District Shared
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1
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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Racks
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Elementary
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2
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No Preference
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Wireless Access Points
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Elementary
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15
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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Racks
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Junior High
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1
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No Preference
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Wireless Access Points
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Junior High
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8
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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Racks
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High School
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1
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No Preference
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Wireless Access Points
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High School
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10
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Ruckus or Ubiquiti or functional equivalent
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2019C2BiddingInstructions10.docx |
C2COVERPAGE44.pdf |
Answer:
In order.
All the buildings, except for the Vocational Arts and CompLab, are brick exterior, with a steel clad roof, (the original roofing was particle board and asphalt shingles in most cases, or tar paper). The remainder are steel construction with drywall or paneled interior walls.
The ceiling is roughly eight foot, in most cases.
In the Secondary building, the ceiling is a 2x4 foam ceiling panel in a suspended ceiling aluminum grid. There is a central catwalk running the length of the lit attic. Five classrooms, on the two ends, have a different roof type, and while there is a catwalk, you will have to duck.
The Primary building is best thought of as four separate, merged, structures.
The central part of the building has a gyp board ceiling, and minimal access to an unlit attic space, crisscrossed liberally with air-conditioninig ducting.
The Upper Elementary "wing", (it's actually the oldest part of that building), has a ceiling that I'd estimate at eight to ten feet. No attic. The ceiling is a 2x4 panel suspended ceiling.
The Library is much like the Upper Elementary, except the ceiling is probably around twelve feet up.
Both these require cabling through a firewall.
The Kindergarten wing, the newest part of that building, has six classrooms. There is a plywood floored catwalk down the center, and the attic is well lit. The roof of that part of the building is all steel, and sightlines are generous. There is a firewall between this wing and the central area, but there is also a wiring cabinet, and pair of switches, that serves this wing almost exclusively.
The Music building has a gyp board ceiling, at about 8 feet, but the current WAN is mounted on the wall, rather than the ceiling.
The ITV/CompLab building is a steel "temporary building", with a steel roof. The interior wall and ceiling is drywall, and this building doubles as the main wiring closet, and the home of the edge router.
The current WAN is mounted on the outside of an air-conditioning closet, that is on the opposite side of the main wall from the main rack unit.
The Vocational Arts building is steel, with an all steel roof. The interior classrooms are standard 4x8 thin wood paneling over 18 inch 2x4 studs, except where the paneling has been replaced, or clad, with thin gauge corrugated steel, and steel structural members added. The ceiling is gyp board, but the building has both an attic that is lit, a mezzanine, and exposed steel structural elements to which cables can be secured.
I can produce a map if one does not exist. I believe there is one, but haven't seen it since shortly after the last install.
Racks are supplementary. Wall mounted racks would be preferred. These are to hold both additional equipment, (the Secondary building rack is full, even one additional unit would have to be perched on top,) and existing equipment, (the "racks" in the Primary building are plywood corner cabinets, without rails, with the current equipment either balanced on a shelf inside, or strapped to the wall inside the enclosure.)
We are planning to replace the existing WAP's as the vendor has orphaned that imprint, and line of product and the management tool to which they're programmed, will become unavailable in July 2021. I am hopeful that Ruckus will release a firmware that turns them into standard Ruckus units before then, but am not hopeful. We are also hoping to expand the system, as several weak signal, and insufficient bandwidth areas have been identified.
Answer:
1. Our current "Ruckus" controller is the "xClaim" cloud based wireless controller. It will, presumably, not be available for this project, and that is a driving factor in pursuing this project.
https://www.xclaimwireless.com/
2. Yes. Absolutely.
None, really. They need to work. I don't know of any requirements that are specific to testing, except, arguably, the need to have a classrooms worth of devices all reliably connected at once.
3. Sure.
I would prefer the newer standard, if it's an option.
That said, I still run into occasional issues with USB3 that are fixed by using a USB2 port.
4. No. That said, I'd like it if a couple devices could reach the nearest WAP from the playground, but that would be a teacher comfort thing, not a student need and thus not a design criteria.