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Hattiesburg Clinic cellular WAN service and equipment for 67 rural sites

Hattiesburg Clinic is seeking a third, cellular-based WAN connection to keep 67 rural clinic sites connected if both existing fiber circuits fail. - Buyer and location: Hattiesburg Clinic, P.A., Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi; the solicitation is listed through MPTAP. - OEMs and vendors: Meraki is named only as the manufacturer of the Clinic’s existing MX site-edge equipment, which the service must work with; no cellular carrier, router model, or bidding vendor is specified. MPTAP is the listing platform, and Hattiesburg Clinic is the customer. - Products requested: 67 remotely manageable cellular modem/routers, one per site, with Ethernet handoff; optional external or high-gain antennas for sites with weak indoor signal. Equipment may be purchased, rented, or managed. No part numbers are specified. - Services requested: 4G LTE and/or 5G standby cellular WAN service for 67 sites, plus coverage verification, activation, configuration, installation, optional static IP or private APN, and ongoing support and usage reporting. - Notable requirements: The cellular connection must operate in hot standby and automatically take over during an outage affecting both fiber circuits. It must support EHR and other critical applications, pass IPsec VPN traffic through existing Meraki MX equipment, and provide site-specific coverage predictions and confirmation of usable signal before activation. - Support and equipment: Provide 24x7 outage support, a named account manager, and per-line usage reporting at least monthly. Equipment must be remotely manageable, receive firmware updates during the service term, and be replaced at no cost if it fails. - Pricing and term: Price the service and related costs for 67 sites over 36 months, with separate annual pricing; Years 2 and 3 depend on funding availability. Include applicable equipment, installation, optional antenna, data overage, additional-site, and early-termination rates. Implementation is required within 90 days of contract execution. - Other requirements: State plan performance, throttling thresholds, and overage rates; provide predictable standby-data pricing. Follow applicable HIPAA requirements if accessing protected health information and the federal prohibition on certain telecommunications equipment.

Description

Hattiesburg Clinic is seeking proposals for tertiary cellular WAN service at 67 rural satellite clinic sites. The service will provide a physically diverse, hot-standby connection that automatically takes over if the sites’ two existing fiber circuits both fail, supporting access to the EHR and other critical applications. The scope includes cellular service, equipment, coverage verification, implementation, 24x7 outage support, and usage reporting; the contract term is 36 months, with Years 2 and 3 subject to funding availability. Proposals are due November 1, 2026.

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