Specifications include, but are not limited to: The WAN is part of the district’s critical infrastructure and is strategically important to the district meeting its educational goals and objectives. As such, responses will only be considered from vendors that can meet the required attributes detailed below and enumerated elsewhere in the RFP. ● The proposal must provide pricing for all current district locations. ● The proposal must provide pricing for one (1) Gbps, ten (10) Gbps, 40 Gbps, and 100 Gbps as detailed on the Pricing Sheet. ● The proposal must include all hardware, such as but not limited to routers, switches, SFP, transceivers, Fiber patch cords, and fiber distribution units, required to provide a finished end-to-end service. ● Costs must be inclusive of any fees relating to cross-connects that may be required to provide connectivity to the APS rack at the Cyxtera Technologies Data Center and the H5 Data Center. ● There must be a clear demarc between vendor and district owned equipment. The vendor may NOT connect directly to the district switch or router. Any such connection will be accomplished via a district owned jumper cable. ● The vendor must be willing to offer services everywhere within the district’s existing geographical service area as shown in Appendix A. ● The vendor must have a 10-year track record of providing WAN services to entities similar in size to APS. ● All circuits, including circuits added or upgraded during the duration of the contract, must be co-terminus and end on June 30th. It is expected that any new or upgraded circuits will have the same monthly recurring charge as all other similar circuits with a reasonable one-time charge to account for any connection costs. ● In each building, Contractor must run infrastructure or service to an existing (TR / ER / MDF, etc.) designated by Owner. Proposals bringing service to the property line but not inside of the demarc address (TR / ER / MDF, etc.) are not acceptable. Site Diagrams to assist with the location of TR / ER / MDF, etc. locations will be provided upon request. ● It is desired that all Transport Services shall adhere to the following Service Level Agreement (SLA) terms: ● The awardee will make all reasonable efforts to ensure 99.99% network availability of each circuit: ○ 0.25% frame/packet loss commitment ○ 0.25 ms round-trip network latency commitment for the leased lit fiber transport circuit measured between the Z location and the A location ○ 30 ms network jitter commitment
