470-WVISD-C1-FY2027

Please reference Form 470 #270003971 on all correspondence.No email address or phone number associated with this RFP or Form 470 should be added to any marketing distribution or phone list. The Applicant respectfully requests that any contact be specific to this request. Any other contact is discouraged.Walton-Verona Independent School District (the Applicant) wishes to compare Lit Fiber and Leased Dark Fiber services to provide WAN connections between its eligible sites and the Applicants network head-end, located at Walton-Verona Middle School, 32 School Rd.

Walton, KY, 41094 beginning July 1, 2027. Sites to be connected to the head-end are listed below:1. Walton-Verona Elementary: 15066 Porter Road, Verona, KY 410922. Walton-Verona Intermediate School: 1935 Tradition Drive, Verona, KY 410923. Walton-Verona District Office: 21 S Main St, Walton, KY 410944. *Walton-Verona Early Childhood Center: 18 School Road, Walton, KY 41094*IMPORTANT: The Walton-Verona Early Childhood Center is not E-Rate eligible, but the District would like it to be included in the quote.

Please separate this facility as ineligible in all quotes and contracts. All costs associated to connect the Walton-Verona Early Childhood Center must be clearly separated out on the proposal and listed as E-Rate Ineligible.The Applicant is seeking two options for bids. Service Providers may bid either or both options, and must include all listed sites, terms, and bandwidth levels (where applicable) for their bid to be considered.

1. The first option is a fully managed, leased lit fiber transport service from the head-end site to the specified eligible applicant sites. Any one-time special construction can be bid separately from the Service Providers proposed monthly recurring cost for the fully-managed leased lit service. Your proposal should include pricing options for 5 and 10 Gbps connections between each endpoint site and the head-end site, and should allow for service level changes to be made to any location during the term of the contract.

Lit fiber circuits must be provisioned with an active, powered stand-alone network device on each end of the link. Simply terminating circuits into an optical interface module is not acceptable. 2. The second option is for a leased dark fiber solution that may include special construction, the monthly lease fee, monthly maintenance and operations fees, and can, as an option, also include pricing for the purchase of equipment necessary to light the fiber.

Any one-time special construction costs must be bid separately from the monthly lease fee. Monthly recurring maintenance and operations fees should be itemized separately from monthly recurring dark fiber lease fees. The price quote should be for a lease of up to 4 strands of fiber from the head-end to each eligible entity location; other configurations will be considered.

Respondents must offer recurring Maintenance and Operations services and can, as an option, also offer pricing for the purchase of equipment that the Applicant will need to light the fiber; Respondents including the option of a quote to sell the equipment necessary to light the fiber should include the following new equipment (or its equivalent): (qty 1) - Extreme Networks X450G2-24p-G4 or equivalent, (qty 3) -Extreme Networks X460G2-48p-10G4 or equivalent, (qty 1) - Extreme Networks 5420M-48W-4YE-SwitchEngine or equivalent.

It is acceptable for vendors of network equipment to bid these items (or their equivalent) without bidding the dark fiber itself. Respondents must separate non-recurring special construction charges, monthly recurring fiber lease and monthly Maintenance and Operations charges, and charges for equipment listed above as defined by E-rate eligibility rules.A voluntary site visit will be held at 21 S Main St, Walton, KY 41094 at 10:00am EST on November 23, 2026.

This will be the only opportunity to ask questions or to receive answers to questions related to this RFP. Respondents choosing not to attend in so doing acknowledge their understanding that they were offered and voluntarily declined the opportunity.The Applicant seeks a 5-year contract with up to [FIVE] optional voluntary one-year extensions; other terms will be considered.

Extension terms and pricing must be spelled out in the proposal. Open-ended, automatically renewing, or "evergreen" terms are not acceptable and will not be considered responsive. Bids should be e-mailed to the office of [contact in the Form 470] by December 7, 2026.