The vendor is required to provide district wide IT fiber network upgrade services
- Provide pathways to support fiber optic cabling installation.
- Provide all labor, materials, and equipment for the complete installation of work called for in the contract documents.
- The contractor shall verify with the manufacturer any part number listed within and on the drawings prior to the purchase of those items to ensure the correct part is specified for the intended purpose.
- The telecommunication outside plant consists of cable, conduit, manholes, poles, etc. required to provide signal paths from the closest point of presence to the new facility, including free standing frames or backboards, interconnecting hardware, terminating cables, lightning and surge protection modules at the entrance facility.
- Network analysis
• Prepare network analysis diagrams and supporting mathematical analyses using the critical path method.
• Illustrate order and interdependence of activities and sequence of work; how start of a given activity depends on completion of preceding activities, and how completion of the activity may restrain start of subsequent activities.
• Mathematical analysis: tabulate each activity of detailed network diagrams, using calendar dates, and identify for each activity:
1. Preceding and following event numbers.
2. Activity description.
3. Estimated duration of activity, in maximum 14-day intervals.
4. Earliest start date.
5. Earliest finish date.
6. Actual start date.
7. Actual finish date.
8. Latest start date.
9. Latest finish date.
10. Total and free float; float time shall accrue to owner and to owner's benefit.
11. Percentage of activity completed.
12. Responsibility.
• Analysis program: capable of accepting revised completion dates, and re-computation of all dates and float.
• Required reports: list activities in sorts or groups if network diagram is incapable of graphically identifying the relationships between activities and the critical path:
1. By preceding work item or event number from lowest to highest.
2. By amount of float, then in order of early start.
3. Listing of activities on the critical path.
- A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference Date: March 13, 2025