The Okaloosa County School Board (hereafter referred to as the “District”) intends to contract for Network Infrastructure Equipment for its schools and other Okaloosa County School District locations. The District requests bids for these products, as described in the specifications, from interested Vendors. The District is currently standardized on Extreme Network equipment. Any equipment bid for this project shall be fully compatible with Extreme Networks Netsight Suite, Version 6.1.0.137. The District has made a significant investment in Extreme Networks switching and wireless products. We currently leverage NetSight NMS and NAC from Extreme Networks for our "single management system" for switching and wireless; and NAC for device registration and identity management on both wireless and wired devices. The intent of this ITB will be to add capacity to our existing deployment of Wireless Access Points, including but not limited to, 1:1 initiatives, computer based testing, etc. Preference will be given to solutions that work seamlessly with our existing wireless Controllers, NMS and NAC solution provided by Extreme Networks.
All aspects of this solicitation and the products purchased must comply with the FCC’s competitive bidding requirements for Universal Service Fund (USF) support. The vendor must participate in the E-Rate program administered by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC). The purchase of any equipment from a resulting contract is contingent on being awarded funding from E-Rate Category 2 funds.
