RFP - Fiber Optic WAN Service

The Butts County Schools is requesting proposals from qualified service providers for fully managed, lit fiber Wide Area Network service connecting the District's instructional and administrative facilities in Jackson, GA. The District is requesting pricing for a 36-month term.

The Butts County School District (BCSD or the District) is seeking qualified proposals for fully managed, lit fiber Wide Area Network (WAN) service connecting the District's instructional and administrative facilities. [...] The District is requesting service for a 36-month period beginning July 1, 2027.

Butts County Schools is a district in central Georgia. The Board of Education Office is located in Jackson and supports over 3400 students and 186 faculty.

Only fully managed, lit fiber WAN service proposals will be considered.

The service should provide a minimum of either 2 Gbps or 5 Gbps effective throughput between each facility and the district's BoE as described in the pricing attachment. The District is additionally requesting pricing for 10 Gbps connectivity between each facility and the board office.

The proposal must include sufficient technical detail to identify:

• Physical and logical connectivity between facilities;
• Underlying network technology;
• Relevant configuration and routing information;
• Service demarcation and handoff at the MDF of each facility;
• Required terminating equipment;
• Management and monitoring responsibilities; and
• Any material technical dependencies or limitations.

As a lit service, the vendor should provide the terminating components compatible with the District's existing equipment, as well as configuration, ongoing administration and maintenance of such modulating equipment.

Carrier circuits must be managed by the carrier and provide appropriate Quality of Service (QoS). The service provider must actively monitor the network and notify the District of service disruptions. The District must be notified of identified outages within 30 minutes of discovery.

Support services and network availability must be provided 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, subject to the binding Service Level Agreement included with the proposal.

All required equipment, installation charges and other costs necessary to provide the proposed service must be clearly identified.

The Required Service Start Date is **July 1, 2027**. The ability to provide complete, operational service by this date is a material business requirement of this procurement.

**Submission:** Proposals must be submitted electronically to rfp@fundingtechnology.com with the subject line: RFPBUTTSWAN27 Proposal. Proposals received after the stated proposal deadline will not be evaluated.

**Questions:** All questions must be submitted to rfp@fundingtechnology.com with the subject line: RFPBUTTSWAN27 Q&A. Q&A deadline is **November 21, 2026 at 04:00 PM EST**.

**Evaluation:** Qualified proposals meeting the stated requirements will be evaluated according to the following scoring matrix:

| Factor | Points |
| --- | --- |
| E-Rate Eligible Cost | 40 |
| Technical Requirements | 15 |
| Administrative Requirements | 35 |
| Vendor Qualifications | 5 |
| Proposal Quality | 5 |
| Total | 100 |

**Contract term:** The District is requesting pricing for an anticipated 36-month service period beginning July 1, 2027 and ending June 30, 2030.

The District may require an agreed form of performance assurance as a condition of award when the selected solution presents material construction or implementation risk.