Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. The requested service is a Point-to-Multi-Point service between the User Network Interface (UNI) at the Owner’s “Collector Site” to the UNI(s) located at each of the sites as listed on “Attachment A – Site Schedule”. a. The Owner is looking for a “Direct Connections” at each site (dedicated physical connection between two or more sites, with no other physical or logical breaks between sites). 2. The Connections shall be a minimum of 1,000Mb/s, or higher, unless otherwise noted on the “Attachment A – Site Schedule”. 3. The Owner is seeking to build out a private network, the respondent will provide a separate price for all one-time special construction and/or build-out costs, including but not limited to: conduit/trenching, interior pathways, cabling, terminations, construction of network facilities, route assessments, ROW access and/or easement assessments, traffic control and permits, surveys, testing, design and engineering, and project management to provide the requested service connection to the Owner’s designated demarcation point and also a separate proposal to amortize the cost of the construction into the monthly contract cost. a. If the Respondent can offer financing up to three (4) years on the Owners non-discounted share of the special construction charges, please list this in the proposal. Include the following: i. The total amount financed ii. The term of the agreement iii. The annual interest rate The installment payment option is available for the Owner’s non-discount share of the special construction charges only, not the total cost of the special construction project. The cost of one-time construction and/or installation fees as necessary by the bidder to provide their proposed service. For ERate purposes, special construction refers to the upfront, non-recurring costs associated with the installation of new fiber to or between eligible entities. If no new fiber is being installed, then any installation costs are considered standard, non-recurring costs (NRC). The Owner may seek funding for special construction charges relating to leased lit, leased dark and self-provisioned fiber. Special construction charges eligible for Category One support consist of three components: a. Construction and network facilities b. Design and Engineering c. Project Management **Note** The term special construction does not include network equipment necessary to light fiber, nor the services necessary to maintain the fiber. Charges for network equipment and fiber maintenance are eligible for Category One support as separate services but not as special construction. All options can include special construction or one-time E-Rate eligible non-recurring costs as well as E-Rate eligible recurring circuit costs. All proposals for solutions requiring special construction must only include capacity and special construction necessary to deliver service to the Owner. To the extent that the winning Respondent installs additional strands of fiber for future business ventures, the winning Respondent assumes full responsibility to ensure those costs are allocated out of the special construction charges to the Owner in accordance with FCC rules and orders. If, after issuance of the Funding Commitment Decision Letter (FCDL), USAC of the FCC determines that the winning respondent did not cost allocate those charges associated with the additional strands, the Owner will not be responsible for reimbursing the winning Respondent and the winning Respondent will assume all responsibilities deemed ineligible by USAC. Based on the proposal, and both short-term and long-term cost effectiveness analysis, the Owner will determine which of the solutions is acceptable. 4. All RFP proposals will include any/all costs associated with switching service from the Owner’s existing service provider. The Respondents submittal of a proposal is an acknowledgement of this requirement. 5. Customer Premise Equipment (CPE), to provide the requested service. a. Demarcation hand-off will be a SC Single Mode Fiber connection. Respondent will provide and maintain all premise equipment necessary to provide the Owner with the specified hand-off type of service requested. b. All solutions must terminate service or infrastructure in the demarcation point at the site address and MDF location as specified in the RFP. Solutions bringing service to the property line but not to the demarcation point are not acceptable. Respondent must specify the specific demarcation setup included in the base fee. 6. The requested service shall provide for both physical and logical separation of Owner’s traffic through the public switched network. The Respondent shall, as determined by the scope of their proposed service, provide all necessary equipment, software, and/or professional services, including but not limited to Ethernet Virtual Connections (EVC), to accomplish this requirement. 7. Full duplex operation (connection shall be bi-directional) 8. The requested service shall allow the following Network Protocols: a. TCP/IP protocols b. 802.1d and 802.1q QoS on the entire circuit c. All Layer 1 and Layer 2 protocols, minimum Layer 3 (EIGRP, IGMP, IPSEC, OSPF & RIP) d. Multicasting (IGMP with PIM, SM or DM 9. The Respondent shall supply an industry standard Service Level Agreement (SLA), to ensure the following Objectives are maintained: a. No other bidder’s customers shall have physical or logical access to the Owner’s traffic/VLAN. b. Network availability: 99.99% c. Packet Delivery Rate: 99.99% d. Network Latency: 30ms, one way e. Mean Time to Repair: 4 hours, end-to-end, including local loop. f. 24/7/365 monitoring of the circuits g. The Service Provider, at no time, shall limit or throttle the capacity of the circuit, for any reason. 10. No proposal shall be accepted, or contract awarded to a Respondent: a. Who is not licensed in accordance with the law. b. Who does not hold a license qualifying them to perform work under this contract in the State of Florida. c. Who does not hold a valid Service Provider Identification Number (SPIN) and is in good standing with the FCC/USAC. d. Who has not successfully performed on projects of similar character and scope to the proposed work.
