The Vendor is required to provide a managed lit or dark fiber WAN (Wide Area Network) service.
- The single E-rate eligible vendor will provide, install, and maintain E-rate eligible equipment with scalable and agile service.
- The solution will provide no less than 100 Gbps of bandwidth.
- Provide a managed lit or dark fiber solution between the two agency Data Centers.
- A lit fiber service will provide single-mode fiber with termination equipment being either the appropriate Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) for 10 Gbps Ethernet or a new LC fiber patch panel.
- A dark fiber service will provide a minimum of (4) four strands of single-mode fiber with termination provided by a new LC fiber patch panel.
- Provided bandwidth must be fully diverse and dedicated to school, ungoverned, and must not be affected by other customer network load on the service provider network.
- Service design is encouraged to provide the most robust fiber path, equipment, and power configuration.
- Fiber may not share conduit with existing service unless a separate inner duct is available.
- The solution will provide no less than 10 Gbps of bandwidth to each location.
- Any service outage must not affect more than one campus.
- Contract Period/Term: 5 years
- Pre-Proposal conference Date: January 15, 2026
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 23, 2026