26-PnESD

Category 1: Internet Access The district is seeking proposals for Internet/ISP services to support the District Office Hub located at 3841 N 91st Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85037, as well as all associated district sites. Proposals must include a minimum bandwidth of 6 Gbps, with optional pricing for incremental increases of 1 Gbps up to 10 Gbps, and 10 Gbps increments up to a maximum of 50 Gbps. The contract must allow for bandwidth upgrades during the term.
Please provide pricing for either:
A five-year contract, or A one-year contract with optional one-year renewals, not to exceed 60 months.
Firewall Services The district also requests pricing for firewall services, which may be:
Cloud-based Firewall Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) On-premise managed firewall
These options may be included as part of the Internet service proposal. If the firewall service is provided at no additional cost, it may qualify as a Category 1 E-Rate service. If it incurs a separate cost, it may be eligible under Category 2. An Internal Connections request for firewall has also been included in the districts Form 470. ____ 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 5-year contract or one year with four optional annual extensions, not to exceed 60 months. Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths. See posted scope for locations/bandwidths. ____ Standalone Data Transmission Service (11) Optical Ethernet/Fiber or equivalent WAN circuit for schools and district administrative sites. Please quote minimum of 10 Gbps, maximum of 50 Gbps with 10 Gbps increments. Requesting a 5-year contract or one year with four optional annual extensions, not to exceed 60 months. Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths. See posted scope 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.
Category 2: Firewall Service & Components (1) firewall appliance capable of up to 45-50 Gbps throughput with full security enabled (IPS, AVC, NGFW, threat protection), equivalent to Fortinet 4200F.
Will be replacing an existing Fortinet device.
Include 1-year license and/or subscription. Include labor for installation and configuration.
Quoted solution could be any of the following:
Cloud-based Firewall Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) On-premise managed firewall
These options may be included as part of the Internet service proposal. If the firewall service is provided at no additional cost, it may qualify as a Category 1 E-Rate service. If it incurs a separate cost, it may be eligible under Category 2. A request for Internet with firewall has also been included in the districts Form 470. ____ 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.
Requested services (5 line items): - Category 2 — Internal Connections — Firewall Service, Components, And Necessary Software And Licenses - Category 2 — Basic Maintenance Of Internal Connections — Firewall Service And Components - Category 1 — Data Transmission And/Or Internet Access — Internet Access And Data Transmission Service - Category 1 — Data Transmission And/Or Internet Access — Standalone Data Transmission Service
State/local procurement requirements: 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.
Reference documents (Form 470 / RFP): https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260008313/142912/20681141-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260008313_CERTIFIED.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260008313/142912/20681119-PnESD_2026_RFQ_Wide%20Area%20Network.pdf