FY 26-27-CAT1-East Iowa City CSD

Iowa City CSD BEN: 132539 is seeking a bundled Internet Access service (IA and associated transport). This service is to be delivered to one of the hubs of the district's network at 1725 N Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52240. The requested transport is Fiber Optic, handoff via Ethernet.
This funding request will serve approximately of the Iowa City CSDs schools.
59914-Southeast Middle School 59917-LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 59919-MARK TWAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 59924-HORACE MANN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 59927-HELEN LEMME ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 59929-IOWA CITY HIGH SCHOOL 59930-ROBERT LUCAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 59931-BOHUMIL SHIMEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 16060526-ELIZABETH TATE ALT HIGH SCHOOL 17010212-Alexander Elementary School 17012625-Herbert Hoover Elementary 17019245-Christine Grant Elementary School The district seeks bids for Internet at the following capacities: 10 Gbps, 15, Gbps, 20 Gbps, 25 Gbps.
The District requests bid options for one-year, three-year, and five-year contract terms.
Service providers shall include their proposed Service Level Agreement (SLA) with their bid response.
Components to be addressed: Service Availability/Uptime: >= 99.8% desired Performance Metrics: Guaranteed symmetrical bandwidth availability at the contracted rate. Repair Timeframes (MTTR): <= 4 hours desired. Service Credits: 100% of monthly recurring charges should SLA uptime fall below the threshold. Maintenance Notices: Service Provider to provide advanced notice of >= 48 hours for scheduled maintenance. Packet Loss and Jitter: packet loss < 0.10.5% and jitter under 30ms.
Interested vendors must include 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 minimum of [20], or /[30] netblock, IPv4 Public IP address can be provided*, and if there is a fee, indicate the $ 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 anticipated dollar amount of all applicable taxes and fees (not just a statement that taxes and fees are separate), (g). Bidders must be willing to provide Service Provider invoicing (SPI) and to include this statement in the proposal. (h). Robo-bids and bids sent as SPAM without regard to products and services listed on the 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.
The 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 shall be e-mailed to the Form 470 contact.
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/Form470/260018739/132539/21068678-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260018739_CERTIFIED.pdf