Specifications include, but are not limited to: Monroe Technology Consortium (Applicant) is seeking proposals for data transmission services and related equipment between the A Locations and Z locations. Offers are not required to bid every circuit to be considered. If warranted to bid all sites, Offerors are encouraged to partner with entities that own existing infrastructure along the Offeror’s proposed route(s). The applicant reserves the right to award all, some, or none of the circuits represented in this procurement. We are posting this 470/RFP for the initial project we posted in December 2023, because we want to give vendors more time to bid since we did not get bids for all the connections and we added additional connections we would like to consider. The Applicant currently owns 12 to 18 fiber strands connecting each of our 9 local school districts DMARC site from the Monroe County ISD that was deployed around 1999 in a hub-and-spoke network design. We currently provide 10Gb WAN connection to each school district that the district uses to connect to our ISP and other consortium related services. We co-own fiber in the sheath with Everstream and they handle repairs and maintenance of the existing fiber. In your bid, we are open to utilizing some of this existing fiber to achieve a design where we can have 99.995% network availability. When we ask for a connection from A location to Z location, we are seeking an option that will allow us to create resiliency that connects each local school district to eliminate a single point of failure between every district in the network.
