2026 Form 470 Solon CSD Internet Service

The Solon Community School District is seeking a bundled Internet Access service (IA and associated transport). This service is to be delivered to the hub of the Districts network at 1775 Racine Avenue, Solon, IA 52333. The District seeks bids for Internet at the following capacities: Minimum of 1 GBPS and maximum of 5 GBPS. The District also requests bid options for one-year, three-year, and five-year contracts. Interested vendors should also provide the following information in their bids: a) Indicate the type of connectivity (e.g. fiber, coaxial, microwave, etc.); b) Indicate whether E-Rate C1 eligible bundled firewall is provided; c) Identify any E-Rate ineligible charges (such as DDoS); d) Indicate if a consecutive block of 32 IPv4 Public IP addresses (CIDR /27) can be provided, and if there is a fee, indicate the actual dollar amount separately; e) Bidders must be willing to provide turn-up testing and initial connection no less than ten (10) business days prior to the start of service; f) Indicate the actual dollar amount of any applicable taxes and fees (not just a statement that taxes and fees are separate), g) Bidders must be willing to provide E-Rate discounted billing and to include this statement in the proposal. h) Bids must include an option for an integrated and automated enterprise-level DDoS mitigation solution even though the cost is an ineligible E-Rate C1 charge. The actual dollar amount of the DDoS mitigation solution must be disclosed whether or not it is bundled with the Internet Access service. Robo-bids and bids sent as SPAM without regard to products and services listed on this Form 470 and/or the RFP will be disqualified and will not be evaluated. The District reserves the right to cancel this request for bids and to reject all related proposals. Special note for state and local procurement requirements: By submitting a bid on the requested services herein, the vendor certifies: its proposed prices are consistent with the FCCs Lowest Corresponding Price (LCP) requirements and that its equipment and services are compliant with the FCCs recent Order (FCC 19-121) prohibiting the sale, provision, maintenance, modification, or other support of equipment or services provided or manufactured by Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hangzhou, Dahua, Pacific Network Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC and China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited or any other covered company deemed a national security threat. Deadline for vendor proposals is 9:00 am Central time, 29 days after the date this Form 470 is posted. We reserve the right to reject late-submitted proposals. Proposals must be e-mailed to the Director of Technology, Sean Seaton (contact@example.gov).
Requested services (1 line item): - Category 1 — Data Transmission And/Or Internet Access — Internet Access And Data Transmission Service
State/local procurement requirements: By submitting a bid on the requested services herein, the vendor certifies: its proposed prices are consistent with the FCCs Lowest Corresponding Price (LCP) requirements and that its equipment and services are compliant with the FCCs recent Order (FCC 19-121) prohibiting the sale, provision, maintenance, modification, or other support of equipment or services provided or manufactured by Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hangzhou, Dahua, Pacific Network Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC and China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited or any other covered company deemed a national security threat.
Reference documents (Form 470 / RFP): https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260012858/132572/20848375-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260012858_CERTIFIED.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260012858/132572/20848085-2026%20Solon%20ERate%20Internet%20RFP.pdf