Specifications include, but are not limited to:GENERAL Charleston County School District requires an automated notification system to notify students, parents, and staff of important information automatically. The system must be capable of delivering messages by telephone, email, and cell phone text messaging. The solution must provide for district-wide notifications, and notifications by individual learning communities and individual schools for matters related to single and/or multiple sites. The District will consider different types of solutions, for example vendor-hosted service, a district-hosted enterprise system, etc. The solution chosen will provide at least the following capabilities: •Transmission of general messages by the District or each facility as needed. •Rapid transmission of emergency notifications to large numbers of recipients. (Speed of message delivery must exceed industry standards and maintain consistency during regional/national crises.). •Daily messaging to parents about student attendance or disciplinary information. Additional information: •Charleston County School District has 84 schools and programs, two major administrative sites, and several smaller district offices. •There are approximately 48,330 students, and 8,000 staff. •All sites have stand-alone PBXs or key telephone systems. •There are 71 Avaya 8000 series switches and 6 WIN systems. •The District is served by three local exchange carriers; AT&T is the primary care provider while TDS and Frontier serve nine sites in outlying areas of the district. •The District has a wide area network with Metro-Ethernet 10/100M B circuits and seven sites on T-1 circuits. • The student information system is Pearson’s PowerSchool. • The ERP system is Tyler Technologies MUNIS. • The e-mail system is Google Mail
