The Owner is seeking proposals for Wide Area Network connections and will accept proposals from Service Providers for Leased Lit fiber solutions. The Respondent will include in their proposal all costs necessary to provide, construct, install, program, maintain, and monitor the services requested. All maintenance costs associated with any on-site premise equipment provided as an integral part of the Respondent’s proposed service shall be their sole responsibility. Per the requirement of the E-Rate Program, other than the SelfProvisioned option, the services requested shall at no point now, or in the future, become the property of the Owner. The successful Respondent will include in their bid price, at a minimum, the following: 1. The requested service is a Point-to-Point service between the User Network Interface (UNI) at the Owner’s “Collector Site” to the UNI(s) located at each of the sites as listed on “Attachment A – Site Schedule”. 2. The Connections shall be a minimum of 1Gbps, or higher, unless otherwise noted on the “Attachment A – Site Schedule”. 3. The Respondent will provide a separate price for all one-time special construction and/or build-out costs, including but not limited to: conduit/trenching, interior pathways, cabling, terminations, construction of network facilities, route assessments, ROW access and/or easement assessments, traffic control and permits, surveys, testing, design and engineering, and project management to provide the requested service connection to the Owner’s designated demarcation point and also a separate proposal to amortize the cost of the construction into the monthly contract cost...
