E-Rate #270001836

Wyoming Ethernet WAN service for educational locations

Wyoming is seeking Ethernet wide-area network service for educational locations, with the initial release identifying an Albany County School District #1 site in Laramie. - Government buyer: Wyoming Department of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), acting through an E-Rate consortium; the service is for educational locations connecting to district hubs or the Wyoming Unified Network (WUN) core. - Location and quantity: The initial release identified one circuit at Albany County School District #1 Central Administration, 2931 Standards Place, Laramie, Wyoming. The latest attachment list no longer includes the circuit-location spreadsheet, so the current location list should be confirmed. - Requested service: Intrastate Ethernet WAN service, with pricing requested for 10 Mbps, 50 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 25 Gbps, and 40 Gbps. The initial location spreadsheet listed options through 10 Gbps. - Technical requirements: Support IP Layer 3 or Ethernet Layer 2 over 802.1Q VLANs; pass tagged and untagged frames; carry frames up to 1,522 bytes without fragmentation; support at least 10,000 unique MAC addresses at each A-end; and meet the FCC intrastate 10% rule. - Permitted handoffs: 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 25GBASE-SR, 25GBASE-LR, 40GBASE-SR4, 40GBASE-LR4, or 100GBASE-LR4. - Commercial requirements: Itemize all service-related costs and follow the revised 2027 WEN Bid Narrative. - OEMs and vendors: No equipment manufacturers, service vendors, or resellers are named in the provided materials.

Description

The State of Wyoming is soliciting stand-alone bids for wide-area network services at educational circuit locations and capacities identified in the attached spreadsheet. Services must connect to district hub sites in a spoke-and-hub configuration or to a State Unified Network Core, and meet specified Ethernet, frame-size, MAC-address, intrastate, and handoff-standard requirements. Bid capacities are 10M, 50M, 100M, 500M, 1G, and 10G; responses must include all service-related costs and agree to the attached E-Rate Bid Narrative. The source lists conflicting response deadlines: November 9, 2026 in the solicitation description and November 5, 2026 in the additional instructions.

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