FY 26-27-CAT1 Great Prairie AEA

Great Prairie Area Education Agency BEN: 132604 is seeking bids for the following Category 1 eligible services: #1) leased lit fiber and/or transport only from our Fairfield office located at 2000 West Jackson, Fairfield, IA 52556 to our Ottumwa office located at 2814 N. Court Street, Ottumwa, IA 52501. The agency seeks bids for the following capacities: 500 MBPS - 10 GBPS The agency also requests bid options for one-year, three-year, and five-year contracts. #2) bundled Internet Access service (IA and associated transport). This service is to be individually delivered to these Agency sites: (bandwidth requested varies by site) Burlington Office 3601 West Avenue Burlington, IA 52601-9456 1 Gbps minimum; 10 Gbps maximum Ottumwa Office 2814 N. Court St Ottumwa, IA 52501-1163 1 Gbps minimum; 10 Gbps maximum
Fairfield Office 2000 W Jackson Ave, Fairfield, IA 52556 500 Mbps minimum; 1 Gbps maximum Albia Office 103 South A Street Albia, IA 52531 500 Mbps minimum; 1 Gbps maximum Service Providers are encouraged to bid both scenarios: #1 Direct Internet Access at bandwidth indicated to all sites. #2 Direct Internet Access to the Burlington Office with other sites connected via a 1 Gbps Layer 2 WAN Connection (Hub & Spoke)
Service providers shall Indicate if a block of IPv4 Public IP address can be provided*, and if there is a fee, indicate the $ amount separately;
Interested vendors must provide the following information in their bid: (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). 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; (e). Indicate the $ amount of any applicable taxes and fees (not just a statement that taxes and fees are separate), (f). Bidders must be willing to provide E-Rate discounted billing (SPI) and to include this statement in the proposal. (g). 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. (h). The agency 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 (2 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: 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/Form470/260012260/132604/20823727-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260012260_CERTIFIED.pdf