2025 Category 1 and 2 - Network Refresh

This bidding process falls under the USAC (Universal Service Administrative Company) E-Rate program and is filed under FCC Form 470 #: 250022447 (LCSD_FY2025_C1_AND_C2_NE).

The bidding window officially closes at 2:30pm (PST) on Friday, 3/14/2025.  Due to E-Rate 471 submittal deadlines, bids after this date will not be accepted!

Questions must be submitted before Friday, March 7th, 2025

Bids can be submitted in-person or by email, mail, or fax.

Qualifications, procedures, and directions for reviewing the Lebanon Community School District #9 Form 470 can be found at the following USAC website: https://www.usac.org/e-rate/service-providers/before-you-begin/.

Direct search of FCC Form 470s: https://data.usac.org/publicreports/Forms/Form470Rfp/Index. (Billing Entity Number: 144952)

Documents attached at bottom of page

• • LCSD-2025-Category1and2-RFP-NetworkRefresh.docx

  • RFP-Appendix_A-Network_Refresh_Parts_List.xlsx

Addendum:

**Any additional documentation that is added during this bidding process will be posted here and attached at the bottom of this page.**

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Questions and Answers/Clarifications:

**Any questions and answers  and/or clarifications that are posed during this bidding process will be added here**

(Updated 2/25/2025)

1.)
Question: What support subscription for Catalyst switches?

Answer: Catalyst EDU licenses come with 3-year support.
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/solutions/industries/docs/education/k12-offers-customer-overview.pdf

2.)
Question: What is your preferred airflow for the datacenter switches?  Front to back or back to front?

Answer: Front to back

3.)
Question:  (This is a clarification/correction of Question 2's answer) For the Nexus DataCenter Switches, does your Airflow front to back? Do you put the ports of the Nexus on the same side the server ports? 

 To clarify:

 Do the front of the rack Nexus power supply back of the rack Nexus switch ports or the other way around?

Answer: For the datacenter switches for the District Main DataCenter (@ the Lebanon High School), airflow on the datacenter (Nexus or equivalent) switches should be Back-to-Front.

For the datacenter switch for District Backup DataCenter (@Pioneer School), airflow on the datacenter (Nexus or equivalent) switch should be Front-to-Back.