Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Target population: The population to be served is non-University tenants located on the campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. University tenants shall continue to receive network and other information technology services from the University, and are not included in the scope of this RFP. The resulting multi-service system will be operated separately but will be overlaid on portions of the same physical infrastructure. The determination of University tenant and nonUniversity tenant designations will reside with the University. 2. Considerations: PSP’s will be granted certain considerations that will not be afforded to other service providers who may choose to compete for business on campus. The University has considerable control over key parts of the physical infrastructure and the up-front marketing. The University is therefore in a position to grant exclusive considerations that will give PSPs considerable marketing and business advantages. These considerations are outlined in the University Contributions section of this document. However, the University cannot guarantee the delivery of customers or be held liable for failure of tenants to employ a PSP’s services. The PSP’s must offer the highest quality services with competitive pricing to secure the business of campus tenants. 3. Copper-based services: AT&T (the local ILEC) is currently providing telephone and other copper-based services on campus. Contracts with PSP’s shall not replace AT&T-provided copper-based services. However, there is also no restriction against PSP’s providing telephone and other services traditionally delivered via copper cabling. 4. OSP Cables: PSP’s shall deliver tenant services using University-owned fiber optic cables. Note: AT&T has installed copper, twisted-pair cabling in the University’s underground ductbank system to support traditional telephone services and copper-based data services. AT&T will be permitted to continue to install and use this cabling accordingly. Except for the PSP-owned fiber installed from off campus to the CMDF, neither PSP’s nor tenants will be allowed to install new cables of any type in the University ductbank system. These decisions have been made in response to the need for judicious capacity management of the University’s finite outside plant physical infrastructure resources.
