Addendum No. 01 MU22METROETHER Marshall University Division Office of Information & Technology Pre-bid Questions and Answers Q1. What do you mean by providing QoS? A.1 Guarantee bandwidth is available at the site for the specified circuit size and pass our QoS tags within the vendor network. Q2. How are the sites connected back to the Marshall location, site-to-site or mesh? A2. Mesh Q3. Vendors in attendance requested an extension on 1.2, the technical question deadline so they have more time to visit each location listed in the RFP. A3. Marshall has agreed to issue extensions to the RFP Schedule of Events as follows: • Vendor’s Written Question Submission Deadline - August 13, 2021 at 3 PM • Addendum Issued -August 18, 2021 3PM • Technical Bid Opening Date – August 27, 2021 3 PM Q4. What are the termination devices on the University side? A4. Copper or Fiber, straight ethernet and size depends on the location. Q5. Who is currently the incumbent vendor for Marshall. A5. Frontier Q6. Clarification this unmanaged and fiber is built in. A6. Kevin clarified that this is an unmanaged contract service and the fiber is built in. Q8. Current pricing was requested A8. Reference Attachment # 1 Addendum No. 01 Marshall University MU22METROETHER 8/4/21 Office of Purchasing 1
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Addendum No. 01
MU22METROETHER
Marshall University Division Office of Information &
Technology
Pre-bid Questions and Answers
Q1. What do you mean by providing QoS?
A.1 Guarantee bandwidth is available at the site for the specified circuit size and
pass our QoS tags within the vendor network.
Q2. How are the sites connected back to the Marshall location, site-to-site or mesh?
A2. Mesh
Q3. Vendors in attendance requested an extension on 1.2, the technical question deadline
so they have more time to visit each location listed in the RFP.
A3. Marshall has agreed to issue extensions to the RFP Schedule of Events
as follows:
• Vendor’s Written Question Submission Deadline - August 13,
2021 at 3 PM
• Addendum Issued -August 18, 2021 3PM
• Technical Bid Opening Date – August 27, 2021 3 PM
Q4. What are the termination devices on the University side?
A4. Copper or Fiber, straight ethernet and size depends on the location.
Q5. Who is currently the incumbent vendor for Marshall.
A5. Frontier
Q6. Clarification this unmanaged and fiber is built in.
A6. Kevin clarified that this is an unmanaged contract service and the fiber
is built in.
Q8. Current pricing was requested
A8. Reference Attachment # 1
Addendum No. 01 Marshall University MU22METROETHER
8/4/21 Office of Purchasing 1
Addendum No. 01
MU22METROETHER
Marshall University Division Office of Information &
Technology
Pre-bid Questions and Answers
Q9. What do you mean that the vendor is responsible for conduit into the building if necessary?
A9. If an existing conduit is full or unavailable the vender is responsible for
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