FCDL Comment:
DR1:Applicants are required to conduct a fair and open competitive bidding process, carefully consider all bids received and select the most cost-effective service offering using price of the eligible goods and services as the primary factor. During the review, it was determined that the applicant failed to properly solicit and consider all bids when referencing a State Master Contract. The referenced State Master Contract was awarded to numerous vendors who could provide those services, whom should have been solicited for bids and then evaluated based on price as SLD rules require. Therefore, this FRN is denied for failure to properly solicit bids and failure to properly perform a mini-bid evaluation from the bidders under a State Master Contract and consider all vendors who could offer the service requested.||MR1:The Product Type for FRN Line Item .005 was modified from Switch to Module to agree with the applicant documentation.||MR2:The Product Type for FRN Line Item .003 was modified from Switch to License Equipment to agree with the applicant documentation.||MR3:The Product Type for FRN Line Item .006 was modified from Switch to Module to agree with the applicant documentation.||MR4:The Product Type for FRN Line Item .007 was modified from Switch to Caching Equipment to agree with the applicant documentation.||MR5:The Product Type for FRN Line Item .008 was modified from Switch to Caching Equipment to agree with the applicant documentation.||MR6:The Product Type for FRN Line Item .009 was modified from Switch to License to agree with the applicant documentation.||MR7:The amount of the funding request was changed from $312,398.68 to $182,561.76 to remove the ineligible products: 84% ineligible of Switch Cisco Systems CON-SNTP-C9606R-4; 100% ineligible of Cisco Systems UCS-L-6400-25G=; 100% ineligible of Cisco Systems UCS-SP-FI6454; 100% of Cisco Systems CON-SNT-SPFI6454.