Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, Purchasing Department (hereinafter also KPBSD or District), invites the submission of Bids to provide E-Rate Telecommunications Services (Connections Homer Office) to the District; KPBSD leverages centralized data services (such as application hosting, file services, internet filtering and connectivity) out of our primary datacenter housed in the District Office facility at 148 N. Binkley Street in Soldotna, Alaska. As such, we endeavor to connect school facilities via varying WAN connectivity into our District Office facility, or one of our satellite WAN hub facilities in Seward or Homer, to provide these network services and internet connectivity to school locations. In Part 1 of this RFP, KPBSD seeks to compare proposals that provide WAN connectivity to the Connections Homer office located at 206 East Pioneer Avenue, Homer, AK 99603. This facility is new to KPBSD and has not yet had contracted WAN service. Current month-to-month connectivity is provided via fixed wireless by SPITwSPOTs. KPBSD seeks to improve a portion of our existing WAN infrastructure by soliciting proposals for leased litfiber transport or non-fiber high-bandwidth terrestrial transport. Proposals under this section should be for provider-managed WAN transport services over provider infrastructure. Providers are welcome to submit proposals for one or more data transport services requested. Recognizing that holistic solutions covering a majority of facilities may be more operationally cost-efficient than managing multiple different solutions across varying providers, comprehensiveness of solution may be considered as a partial aspect of "Value" and "Implementation Cost to District" evaluation matrix categories. However, we recognize that we cover a diverse geographical area with varying levels of infrastructure and encourage any provider to propose solutions that meet some or all service needs.
