Specifications include, but are not limited to: Category One Internet Access: Providence Public Schools currently has a contract in place for Internet Access that runs through 06/30/21. We are currently in contract year 2 of 3. Category Two: Basic Maintenance of Eligible Broadband Internal Connections Components. The district requests eligible basic maintenance of internal connections services to ensure the necessary and continued operation of eligible internal connection components at eligible locations. We have projected as a reference that it will take 3250 engineer hours and 2750 technician hours to complete these BMIC tasks. Skill set, time and materials estimates are to be specified. Hourly rates are to be provided in each category. Vendors will only bill only for work completed and provide detailed documentation on a monthly basis to the PPSD and SLD. Funding will be provided for the eligible portion of a technical support contact that includes services that exceed BMIC, if the ineligible portion of the contract can be cost allocated. Technical support contracts that cannot be cost allocated to remove costs that are beyond BMIC, are ineligible in their entirety. All requests in this category are for services to be delivered within July 1 to June 30 of the Funding Year. Although Internal Connections is subject to the provisions of the “Two-in- Five Rule,” this rule does not apply to eligible Basic Maintenance of Internal Connections (“BMIC”). We have included spreadsheet of eligible sites for basic network maintenance including all eligible equipment (routers, switches, chassis, VoIP gateways and servers, wiring devices, cabling, UPS, other eligible network equipment), and specifically basic network server maintenance where applicable The district requests a detailed scope of work and requires individual site and district aggregate pricing for all basic maintenance services by sitein keeping with new SLD rules. The total costs of all in-eligible reoccurring and non-reoccurring services must be specified. The total administrative costs of all reoccurring and non-reoccurring services must be specified. *See also most current USAC-SLD Eligible Services List for eligibility requirements. https://www.usac.org/e-rate/applicant-process/before-you-begin/eligible-services-list/ Maintenance and Technical Support of Internal Connections: BMIC. Necessary basic maintenance services defined as follows: “but for the maintenance at issues, the connection would not function and serve its intended purpose with a degree of reliability ordinarily provided in the market place to entities receiving such services without E-Rate discounts.” 47 C.F.R,(54.506(b). The following basic maintenance services are eligible: • Repair and upkeep of eligible hardware • Wire and cable maintenance • Configuration changes • Basic Technical Support including online and telephonebased technical support. • Software upgrades and patches including bug fixes and security patches