Pottsville School District | 922010001169437

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Pottsville School District

IFCB Posted : Nov 22, 2013

Bid Deadline : Friday, Dec 20, 2013

Questions Due By : Friday, Dec 13, 2013

Applicant Address : Pottsville, AR 72858

IFCB ID : 922010001169437

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.

· WEB HOSTING VENDORS ARE REQUIRED TO FILL OUT THE ATTACHED COVER SHEET FOR WEB HOSTING BIDS. WEB HOSTING BIDS SUBMITTED WITHOUT THAT COVER PAGE WILL BE DISQUALIFED. VENDORS NOT SUBMITTING WEB HOSTING BIDS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO USE THE COVER PAGE.

Services and Equipment Requested :

Local phone service - Approx 75 POTS/analog lines

Long distance service - Approx 75 lines

Cellular phone service including internet access/data plans - Approx 5 lines

WAN Connection - Minimum 1GB bandwidth; From 500 Apache Drive, Pottsville, AR 72858; (479) 986 to 250 Apache Drive, Pottsville, AR 78258 (479) 986.

WAN Connection - Minimum 1GB bandwidth; From 500 Apache Drive, Pottsville, AR 72858; (479) 986 to 87 South B, Pottsville, AR 78258; (479) 986.

Internet Access - Minimum 100Mb; the terminating address for this circuit is 500 Apache Drive, Pottsville, AR 72858; (479) 986.

Email service - Approx 250 staff and approx 1,600 students

Web Hosting - For 5 sites. There is a Web Hosting Cover Page associated with this IFCB that is available for download. WEB HOSTING BIDS SUBMITTED WITHOUT THE ATTACHED COVER PAGE WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.

INTERNAL CONNECTIONS
Approx 6 - Switches/Hubs/Routers/DSU's
Approx 20 - Drops
Approx 2 - Network File Servers
Approx 10 - Wireless Access Points
Approx 1 - Wireless Controller
Approx 1 - Electronics Rack
Approx 2 - Network Printers - Costs for network printers must be clearly identified.

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

PottsvilleWHCoverPage.docx

Bid deadline has been reached.

Questions Received with Applicant Answers ( Ask Questions? )

Can you provide floor plans (even scanned jpeg fire escape plans will suffice) for facilities needing wireless AP coverage? This will allow us to more closely determine AP needs based upon heat map software comparisons for AP placement.

Answer:
We already have district wide wireless but have maxed out our access points for the controller. We're looking to upgrade the controller and add a few access points. All of our equipment is from Aruba networks.

Hello, In order to provide the most complete and cost-effective solution, could you kindly answer the following questions regarding your wireless requirements: 1. How many buildings and classrooms require wireless connections? 2. Approximate square footage of desired coverage area? 3. How many clients do you expect to have on the network at any given time--both now and in the future? 4. Is there a 1:1 initiative or BYOD initiative driving this project? Thank you for your time and consideration. Cheers, Brian Roakes Meru Networks broakes@merunetworks.com 813-280-0895

Answer:
We already have wireless in the district through Aruba networks, We are maxed and looking at adding a new Aruba controller (or functional equivalent) so we can add more wireless access points. All buildings have wireless coverage. We are looking at adding more access points to increase the coverage. We are in the middle of initiating our one-to-one plan no plans for byod.

Do you know how many long distance minutes you average per month? Do you own and maintain your own routers and firewall or do you want us to include managed router and firewall in our pricing for the 1 Gb WAN connectiona and 100 Mb Internet Access?

Answer:
Long distance minutes average per month is 1112.5

We do own and maintain our own firewall and routers and would like to keep it that way.

Would the District entertain bids for PRI service? If yes, please provide number of 2-way trunks and DIDs.

Answer:
No, not at this time

Question deadline has been reached.