School District Seeks High-Speed Internet and Data Transmission Services

Internet Access and Data Transmission Service Internet/ISP services with fiber transport for district school. Please quote (1) circuit with minimum of 1Gbps, maximum of 10Gbps with increments of 1Gbps to 10Gbps.Contract should allow to upgrades to quoted bandwidths. Circuit to be located at: 1330 E Carson Dr, Tempe Az 85282.

Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths during contract term._______Internet Access and Data Transmission Service Internet/ISP services with fiber transport for district and schools. Please quote (1) circuit with minimum of 8Gbps, maximum of 50Gbps with increments of 1Gbps to 10Gbps, 10Gbps increments up to 50Gbps. Contract should allow to upgrades to quoted bandwidths.

Hub is located at: 3205 S Rural Road, Tempe Az 85282. Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths during contract term.District is also interested in managed or cloud based firewall. If available, please include this with your quote. Specify whether the firewall service is included with the Internet service as a bundle, or if it has a separate cost.

Firewall service must include full security services: application ID, IPS, malware protection. A firewall is also listed on this Form 470 as a Category 2 request for options with a separate cost._____Standalone Data Transmission Service (1) Optical Ethernet/Fiber or equivalent WAN circuit for schools and district administrative sites. Please quote minimum of 50 Gbps, maximum of 100 Gbps with 10 Gbps increments.

Requesting a 1, 3 or 5-year contract, with optional extensions not to exceed a total of 60 months. Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths. See posted scope of work for locations/bandwidths.________Standalone Data Transmission Service (2) Optical Ethernet/Fiber or equivalent WAN circuits for schools and district administrative sites.

Please quote minimum of 8 Gbps, maximum of 10 Gbps with 1 Gbps increments. Requesting a 1, 3 or 5-year contract, with optional extensions not to exceed a total of 60 months. Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths.

See posted scope of work for locations/bandwidths.________Standalone Data Transmission Service (23) Optical Ethernet/Fiber or equivalent WAN circuits for schools and district administrative sites. Please quote minimum of 1 Gbps, maximum of 10 Gbps with 1 Gbps increments. Requesting a 1, 3 or 5-year contract, with optional extensions not to exceed a total of 60 months.

Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths. See posted scope of work for locations/bandwidths.______THIS PROCUREMENT IS NOT A FORMAL SEALED BID/RFP PROCESS. There are no state or local restrictions or regulations on how service providers can contact the District's technology or business manager.

Arizona State Procurement Code requires a formal sealed bidding process; or purchasing from an IGA, State Master Contract, other approved cooperative purchasing contract, or compliant consortium procured contract for any procurement in excess of $100,000.00.

Any quote/proposal whose total value exceeds $100,000.00 and is not linked to a current State Master Contract, other approved cooperative purchasing contract, or a compliant consortium procured contract will be disqualified by Arizona State Procurement Code. Any quotes must comply with the underlying state master/cooperative purchasing agreement in pricing and terms.

Any quote/proposal submitted that does not specifically address the services requested, is generic in nature or otherwise does not meet the requirements contained in this Form 470 and associated specifications may be considered non-responsive and may be disqualified. SPAM and/or robotic responses will not be considered valid bid responses and will be disqualified from consideration.

All original contracts offered that are less than a 60 month term should include specifications that allow for annual one year extensions and/or month to month extensions at the discretion of the applicant; not to exceed a total of 60 months. Please quote all eligible and ineligible products/services separately.

Any pricing proposed must comply with the FCC Lowest Corresponding Price Rule as required by the Universal Service First Report and Order, and restated in the FCC E-Rate Modernization Report and Order, adopted July 11, 2014.

The FCC Lowest Corresponding Price rule prohibits an E-rate services offeror from offering or charging E-rate applicants a price higher than the lowest price that the offeror charges to non-residential customers who are similarly situated to a particular school, library, rural health care provider or consortium that purchase directly from the offeror.

Agency: Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) Status: Certified