Meade C2 Requests FY2026

No phone calls or texts. For documentation purposes all communication is required to be via email. The applicant is not entertaining product demos. Interested bidders must review the RFP document attached here for the full scope of the project and bid submission guidelines and timelines. Inquiries asking the applicant to consider purchasing other services or components that are not included on the Form 470 will not be considered legitimate inquiries or proposals. Questions that seek information readily available on the Form 470 or RFP will not be answered. Spam, robotic, generic and encyclopedic responses will not be considered legitimate bid inquiries or proposals and will be disqualified. Discounted Billing: Bidders must be willing to provide E-Rate discounted billing (form 474/SPI invoicing) if requested by the applicant. Applicant reserves the right to reject late submitted bids. Bid evaluations may include points for vendors with a local presence or office within 150 miles. Vendor must be an authorized E-rate partner of the manufacturer or will agree that no grey market products will be accepted as part of the procurement and must be willing to certify their SPIN via Form 473 SPAC for the related funding year. Bids must include all charges, including equipment costs itemized by component, shipping and any surcharges. Labor/installation, if requested as part of the service request, shall be itemized separately. Installation may include tagging and adding equipment to the asset registry. ***Due to limitations of form options, we are clarifying here: No access point licensing requested.
Requested services (8 line items): - Category 2 — Internal Connections — Wireless Access Points And Necessary Software And Licenses - Category 2 — Internal Connections — Switches And Necessary Software And Licenses - Category 2 — Internal Connections — Uninterruptable Power Supply/Battery Backup And Necessary Software And Licenses - Category 2 — Basic Maintenance Of Internal Connections — Switches
State/local procurement requirements: Please include SPIN in bid. No phone calls or texts. Bidders must be willing to provide E-Rate discounted billing (form 474/SPI invoicing) if requested by the applicant. RFP: Interested bidders must review the RFP document attached here for the full scope of the project and bid submission guidelines and timelines. Applicant reserves the right to reject late submitted bids. Bid evaluations may include points for vendors with a local presence or office within 150 miles. Spam, robotic, encyclopedic and generic bid responses will not be considered legitimate bid inquiries or proposals and will be disqualified. Inquiries asking the applicant to consider purchasing other services that are not included on the Form 470 will not be considered legitimate inquiries or proposals. Questions that seek information readily available on the Form 470 will not be answered. For contract services, the successful bidder(s) must be willing to sign and date contracts after the Allowable Contract Date of this Form 470 and prior to the submission of the Form 471 for service to commence on July 1, 2026 for Category 1 services or April 1, 2026 for Category 2 components, signed as soon as possible after the winning bid is chosen. Contracts must include an e-rate contingency clause if requested by the applicant. All requests are contingent upon funding by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Services Administrative Company (USAC) unless otherwise agreed upon by applicant. Will consider multi-year contracts and/or contracts with voluntary extensions and/or amendments. Proposals should separately itemize the cost of E-rate eligible and ineligible services. Bidder acknowledges their equipment and services are compliant with FCC's recent Order (FCC 19-121) prohibiting the sale, provision, maintenance, modification, or other support of equipment or services provided or manufactured by Huawei, ZTE or any other "covered company" deemed a national security threat. Vender must be an authorized E-rate partner of the manufacturer or will agree that no grey market products will be accepted as part of the procurement. 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 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/Form470/260009213/134311/20737622-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260009213_CERTIFIED.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260009213/134311/20737549-FY2026%20RFP%20Category%202%20Meade.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260009213/134311/20737550-IMPORTANT%20DATES%20C2%20Meade.pdf