Renovation of an educational facility in Nashua, New Hampshire. Completed plans call for the renovation of a educational facility.

The contents of all proposals will be open to inspection by interested parties, either at the time of bid opening or by appointment thereafter. We are seeking upgrades for our core switch at Nashua High School North. If your company only supplies one solution, please respond, as we are looking for analysis, configuration and installation of Cisco core switches or comparable appliance to support our network. If a single vendor can support all solutions, meeting our goals, it would be very advantageous for us. The purpose of this Request for Proposal is to allow the Nashua School District (NSD) to improve network infrastructure. All RFP responses must be submitted by 10 am on March 7th, 2023 to the Nashua Public Schools Business Office, 141 Ledge Street, Nashua, New Hampshire, 03060. These responses must be in a sealed envelope labeled "Nashua School District: Nashua High School North Core Switch", attention to Gregory Rodriguez, Director of Technology. If you have a solution to analyze, configure, and install, please include your comments and answer all questions to this RFP. Refer all questions about this RFP in writing to Gregory Rodriguez at rodiguezg@nashua.edu. Nashua, the second largest city in New Hampshire (over 90,000), is located in south-central New Hampshire, bordering Massachusetts. The school department currently has an enrollment of approximately 10,000 students in grades K-12. Nashua has a total of eighteen schools, including two High Schools, three Middle Schools, and 12 Elementary Schools, including four other facilities housing a small number of students and staff. 1. The contractor will be required to provide comprehensive services to complete the entire process of the network infrastructure upgrade at the site specified. These services will include planning, equipment acquisition, staging, scheduling, reporting, documentation updates, communication and coordination with other parties involved in the overall project. The selected contractors must be willing to work in a cooperative manner with the NSD staff and other parties working on behalf of NSD. 2. The scope of this project will include the purchase, configuration, and installation of specified Cisco or comparable appliance(s). The contractor will be responsible for removing existing equipment, installing new equipment, making all necessary interconnections, and then verifying that the campus network is fully functional. The new switch equipment will be installed in its place and alongside existing switches, controllers, and phone gateway(s). 3. NSD will provide detailed instructions for network design, site survey templates, configuration templates, installation procedures, documentation procedures, and coordinate scheduling with the campuses. 4. The contractor will be expected to provide experienced staff with adequate expertise in project management and layer 3 routing and switching technologies to comply with the implementation standards required by NSD. For further information, please contact Gregory Rodriguez, Director of Technology at rodriguezg@nashua.edu. This core switch and equipment will meet the requirements to support the following: - Core switch requirements to replace one (1) Cisco Catalyst 4507R+E - Ability to configure device via command line - Supports Layer 3 switching/routing, VLANs, Access control lists, spanning tree protocol, VLAN trunking protocol - Supports EIGRP, RIPv2, Static Routes - Rack mountable - Redundant power supply - Redundant supervisor - Total switching capacity greater than 2 Tbps - Modular design preferred - Support future expansion for additional ports - Support current mix of fiber types and copper Ethernet including -SFP+ 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (24 or more) - 48 Copper 1G Ethernet ports 1. The contractor will be required to provide comprehensive services to complete the entire process of the network infrastructure upgrade at the site specified. These services will include planning, equipment acquisition, staging, scheduling, reporting, documentation updates, communication and coordination with other parties involved in the overall project. The selected contractors must be willing to work in a cooperative manner with the NSD staff and other parties working on behalf of NSD. 2. The scope of this project will include the purchase, configuration, and installation of specified Cisco or comparable appliance(s). The contractor will be responsible for removing existing equipment, installing new equipment, making all necessary interconnections, and then verifying that the campus network is fully functional. The new switch equipment will be installed in its place and alongside existing switches, controllers, and phone gateway(s). 3. NSD will provide detailed instructions for network design, site survey templates, configuration templates, installation procedures, documentation procedures, and coordinate scheduling with the campuses. 4. The contractor will be expected to provide experienced staff with adequate expertise in project management and layer 3 routing and switching technologies to comply with the implementation standards required by NSD.