26-UESD-C1

Internet Access and Data Transmission Service Internet/ISP services for district and schools. The District Office Hub location at 3834 S 91st Avenue, Phoenix, Az 85353 The proposal must include as a minimum 8Gbps bandwidth, and provide optional pricing for 10, 20 and 25Gbps bandwidth points.
Contract should allow for upgrades during the term. Please quote five year contract or one year with four optional extensions. ____ Standalone Data Transmission Service (2) Leased lit Optical Ethernet/Fiber for district schools. Minimum bandwidth of 6Gbps, maximum of 50Gbps per site with pricing at 1Gbps increments to 10Gbps and then 10Gbps increments to 50Gbps. Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths.
Please see RFQ for detailed specification and address locations. _____ Standalone Data Transmission Service (1) Leased lit Optical Ethernet/Fiber for district schools. Minimum bandwidth of 8Gbps, maximum of 50Gbps per site with pricing at 1Gbps increments to 10Gbps and then 10Gbps increments to 50Gbps. Contract should allow for upgrades to quoted bandwidths.
Please see RFQ for detailed specification and address locations. _____ 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 (3 line items): - Category 1 — Data Transmission And/Or Internet Access — Standalone Data Transmission Service - Category 1 — Data Transmission And/Or Internet Access — Internet Access And 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/Form470/260018050/143012/21035802-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260018050_CERTIFIED.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260018050/143012/21035378-UESD_2026_RFQ_Wide%20Area%20Network.pdf