Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification. Specifications include, but are not limited to: The IRU DoIT-Clearwave ARRA Fiber Trade Agreement is an agreement trading fiber routes at no cost to the State. Clearwave Fiber is providing approximately three-hundred (300) miles of four (4) strands of fiber to STL Walnut Facility, and eight (8) strands of dark fiber for the State of Illinois to use as transport fiber through the southern portion of Illinois, and four (4) strands of fiber along Clearwave backbone. The State, in exchange is providing four (4) strands of backbone fiber between Olney and Chicago along the I-57 corridor. The Valuation of the Fiber Trade Agreement is estimated at $3,360,000. The economic benefit is the ability to have an Indefeasible Right of Use of fiber routes between the two entities without expending $17.5M to construct and splice a fiber route for the same path.