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Waverly
Community Schools |
Invitation
to Bid
District
Telephone Equipment RFP
Waverly
Community Schools (District or Owner) invites qualified telephone
system equipment vendors to submit proposals/bids for the above
referenced project.
The RFP specifies the requirements to
supply and install telephone equipment for a complete working
system in a district-wide system and/or in a single building
served by the District’s “to the building” fiber optic
network. The system shall be bid on a component unit price basis
with two levels of telephone instruments: classroom and
secretarial. Typically, each building in the district-wide system
will be served by a remote fiber-served switch or shelf that is
survivable in a fiber cut with automatic switchover to limited
conventional local CO lines. All installation and configuration
services shall be provided on a unit price basis for each
configuration offered by the vendor.
The RFP will be available from the
District’s Technology Designer, Childs Consulting
Associates, Inc., beginning January 26, 2005. Bid documents
are available by UPS or Federal Express, COD or Receiver Account
number, and by pick up at the following address. (Please call,
fax, or e-mail to make arrangements.) A direct web-based
request form is available here,
or at the following web site: www.childs.com/invitations.
Childs
Consulting Associates, Inc.
= Telephone 248) 569-2355
29516 Southfield Rd., Suite 100
= Fax (248) 569-2232
Southfield, MI 48076
Attn: Roger VanAndel
=rva@childs.com
Bids
are due on or before 10:00 A.M., February 16, 2005.
The
RFP contains the specific requirements for all bids. Among the
requirements in the RFP are: an RFP compliance form, specific
required unit pricing, a unit priced base bid cost summary form,
an installation time schedule for the work specified, and a Public
Act 232 Statement of business or familial relationships.
The Waverly Community Schools' Board of Education reserves the
right to accept or reject any and all proposals, to waive any
informalities in the best interest of the Board, and to select the
firm it deems most suitable for its needs.
Each
bidder shall submit with his/her proposal either a bid bond or a
certified check equal to five percent (5%) of the defined unit
price base bid amount payable to the Waverly
Community Schools. In
accordance with Michigan School Code Section 129.201, before
awarding the work, successful contractor(s) must obtain
Performance and Payment Bond (PLM) for any project exceeding
$50,000. The Performance and Payment Bond shall be solely for the
protection of the District/Owner. A surety company authorized to
do business in the State of Michigan shall execute the Performance
and Payment Bond (PLM).
The Owner will receive sealed proposals for the above
project at the District Office, 515 Snow Rd, Lansing, MI,
48917-4502, Attention: Jacklin Blodgett, until the stipulated bid
due date and time. Bids received after the stipulated date and
time will not be considered and will be returned unopened. Bids
will be opened (bids without a bid bond will be retained for the
files and will not be read or evaluated) and read at a public
meeting scheduled for 10:15 A.M. February 16, 2005 at the
above address. Bids must be clearly marked District
Telephone Equipment RFP. Submit
three (3) hard copies and an
electronic copy of your sealed bid cost analysis form, prepared
following the directions of the RFP, and your bid bond / certified
check to:
Attention: Jacklin Blodgett
Waverly
Community Schools
515 Snow Rd., Lansing, MI
48917-4502
Mark
the outer bid envelope: “District
Telephone Equipment RFP”
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