Specifications include, but are not limited to: The St. Louis County Library District is requesting Proposals for high speed Internet service at 20 branch locations in St. Louis County, as described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein as a part of this RFP. The Library District seeks an Internet Service solution that will connect to each location’s existing public Wi-Fi infrastructure which is described in this document. The Library District provides patrons with free Wi-Fi Internet access at each of its 20 branch locations via 200 Mbps Internet coax connections. Usage of these services by the public continues to grow. Peak monthly usage totals have seen over 66,000 unique Wi-Fi devices connected to the Library District’s Branch Wi-Fi networks with a cumulative monthly traffic exceeding 10 terabytes. The Library District owns its firewall and Wi-Fi network infrastructure. The Library District will continue to maintain and support its firewall and Wi-Fi network infrastructure. The Library District currently routes each branch’s Internet Wi-Fi traffic through local Coax Internet connections installed at each branch. The District seeks solutions that will allow it to continue this model of Internet service delivery to each branch from an ISP. The Library District seeks an Ethernet CAT-6 hand off of Internet services from the ISP at each branch location. E-Rate Priority 1 service status is also a requirement in proposer’s response. Proposer must be able to deliver their solution in time to start a 36-month term commencing on July 1, 2024.
