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RFP 211 -037 3. GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS A. INTRODUCTION: The City of San Marcos (the "City ") is requesting proposals from qualified firms for Telecommunication Services to include local, long distance, Point -to- Point T1 services and all related installation, activation and maintenance services (the "Project "). The City expects the successful Proponent to provide all necessary materials and services associated with the Project including costs. B. BACKGROUND: The City owns a fiber optic network to connect City facilities; however, the fiber optic network is not part of this Request for Proposal ( "RFP "). The City has three (3) Point -to -Point T1 spans that are included within the scope of this RFP. The following is a list of current services: 1. Local Services: Local services include two T1 Primary Rate Interface ( "PRI ") spans, 9 Blocks of 100 Direct Inward Dial ( "DID ") Numbers, Incoming DID Trunks, and Ground Start Trunks for Public Branch Exchange ( "PBX ") use. The City has four (4) Nortel PBX sites. All four sites are networked together to provide centralized services at the Municipal Building location. Centralized services include long distance, voice mail, call accounting, attendant answering, and a call center. 2. Lona Distance Services: The City is interested in the cost effective utilization of both dedicated and switched environments; as well as eliminating the requirement for the National Access Fees (Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge "PICC" Charges). The City generates an average of 16,998.4 minutes of long distance per month. 3. Point -to -Point T1 Connectivitv: The Point -to -Point T1 circuits used in the City's data network are at the following locations: a. 630 E Hopkins Street (Municipal Building) to 700 N. LBJ (WIC Building); and b. 2300 IH -35 South (Police Department) to 4015 IH -35 (Tanger Outlet). C. SCOPE OF SERVICES: The successful Proponent will provide services related to: 1. Public Branch Exchange ( "PBX "): See Attachment "B" for a list of PBX locations, equipment, and services. 2. UTILITY COORDINATION: The successful Proponent will be responsible for placement of all orders for central office lines, PRI's, private lines, long distance services, telephone numbers and any other requests. The successful Proponent will coordinate these requests with CenturyLink. The successful Proponent will submit the orders by Friday, June 24, 2011 or as finally negotiated. The successful Proponent will coordinate and confirm orders with the City prior to placing orders, and will provide the City with copies of all orders and other 3