Grove School Co District 27

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

IFCB Posted : Dec 18, 2014

Bid Deadline : Thursday, Jan 15, 2015

Questions Due By : Thursday, Jan 8, 2015

Applicant Address : Shawnee, OK 74801

IFCB ID : 615080001277028

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.

· 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.

Services and Equipment Requested :

Internet Access - Minimum 50Mb bandwidth. Applicant may consider higher bandwidths. School district is requesting a multi-year scalable contract that provides the option to increase bandwidth during the term of the contract. The applicant is also requesting onsite technical support services, basic head-end firewall services, and on-site configuration and turn of the service. The terminating address for this circuit is 2800 N Bryan Rd, Shawnee, OK 74801; (405) 275. Provider must include the proposed cut-over date. All installation of circuits will be completed and tested in a timeframe mutually agreed upon by both parties.

Additionally:

Proposal must include all non-recurring costs for installation and the setup of proposed services.
Services must include 24 X 7 monitoring, 24 X 7 maintenance and support to include remote troubleshooting and repair.
Services must include onsite maintenance and support visits as necessary, and single-point of contact.
ISP services must include DNS services.
Provider must provide automatic notification of network issues by text and/or email.
Provider must provide web-based bandwidth utilization report.

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.

Bid deadline has been reached.

Questions Received with Applicant Answers ( Ask Questions? )

Please add more detail to the following: "onsite technical support" Other than installation, what support will be required? "basic head end firewall services" Does this mean content filtering or additional features? What firewall will be in place? are you looking for a "cloud" firewall?

Answer:
We’re looking for on-site technical support from the ISP in the event of service outages. We understand that some technical support can be provided remotely, but we are a small school understaffed in our IT needs. We also want basic head-end firewall protection from our ISP. We will need content filtering, however, that should be priced out separatley from the Internet access.

Question deadline has been reached.

Questions Received with Applicant Answers ( Ask Questions? )

Please add more detail to the following: *"onsite technical support" Other than installation, what support will be required? *"basic head end firewall services" Does this mean content filtering or additional features? What firewall will be in place? are you looking for a "cloud" firewall?

Please add more detail to the following: "onsite technical support" Other than installation, what support will be required? "basic head end firewall services" Does this mean content filtering or additional features? What firewall will be in place? are you looking for a "cloud" firewall?