Lewisville Independent School District Ionwave #RFQ #10-2026

LISD two-datacenter network refresh with Arista or Cisco equipment and turnkey implementation

Lewisville Independent School District is seeking a turnkey refresh of its two-datacenter network, with Arista and Cisco identified as equipment options. - Buyer: Lewisville Independent School District (LISD), Procurement & Contracts Department; Lewisville, Denton County, Texas. - Named companies: Arista and Cisco are the network equipment options; VMware integration is identified in the project scope. The available equipment worksheet is for Arista. - Arista quantities: The worksheet lists 39 hardware units, including 7050X3-series switches, 7280R3A switch routers, 720-series switches, a 7230R WAN edge router, and three CloudVision physical appliances. The detailed part numbers and quantities are listed below; repeated identical line items have been combined. - Software and support: The request also includes routing and feature licenses, CloudVision subscriptions, a power cord, and A-Care support. Some switch bundles specify five-year next-business-day support; separate CloudVision subscription and A-Care SKUs are listed as one-month items. - Scope: Replace the existing Cisco Nexus 9K / ACI Multi-Pod environment with equivalent functionality and a 100G active-active Spine/Leaf design. Provide configuration, integration, testing, troubleshooting, migration assistance, required OM4 and single-mode fiber trunks, documentation, knowledge transfer, and day-one/day-two operational support. - Key requirements: Vendor implementation must be performed on-site at both datacenters; District engineers handle physical unboxing, racking, cabling, and power connections. Network management must use a manufacturer-supplied, supported on-premises physical appliance with bare-metal high-availability clustering; VM-based, cloud-hosted, software-only, or separately provisioned-compute solutions do not meet the stated requirement. Equipment must support port-side intake and work with the District’s 208V PDUs and C13 receptacles, with appropriate cords included. - Commercial scope: LISD may select a complete Arista or Cisco system, individual additional equipment, or a combination, and may award to one or multiple vendors. Vendors are to include equipment, software, licenses, support, maintenance, implementation, and other costs in pricing. Specific Cisco part numbers and quantities are not provided in the extracted information. - Timing: Implementation is anticipated over an approximately four-month period in 2027; the overall contract term is not stated. Some worksheet duration values are 60 with no unit specified.

Description

Lewisville Independent School District seeks a turnkey, fully operational replacement for its datacenter Core, Distribution, Edge, and Fabric network systems across two datacenters. The project includes implementing a new 100G Spine/Leaf setup for active-active operations, with complete Arista or Cisco system options and separately priced Additional Equipment items available for consideration. Work includes equipment, software, licensing, support, maintenance, implementation, configuration, testing, migration support, documentation, and knowledge transfer. Implementation is planned for May–August 2027, with on-site work at both datacenters.

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