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US Embassy Tbilisi has a requirement for provision of OpenNet Plus (VPN through the Internet) at the 29 Georgian American Friendship ave. Tbilisi Georgia. One (1) dedicated Internet channel (main line... US Embassy Tbilisi has a requirement for provision of OpenNet Plus (VPN through the Internet) at the 29 Georgian American Friendship ave. Tbilisi Georgia. One (1) dedicated Internet channel (main line) at minimum of 120/120 Mbps. TCP and UDP protocols are required. Anticipated performance is for one base period and one one-year periods at the option of the Government. Main requirements are: Internet Service Provider (ISP) must provide dedicated high-speed access to the Internet; data transport media must be fiber optic. Twenty-four (24) hours uplink. Post Internet Service Provider (ISP) connection must be "always on", and must not require the installation of any custom software on the client side. Internet Service Provider (ISP) digital bandwidth is the amount or volume of data that may be sent through the channel, measured in kilobits per second (Kbps), without distortion. Required Bandwidth connection is defined in service description. For Internet Services the Internet Service Provider (ISP) must guarantee full contracted bandwidth availability 24X7X365 from the originator side to the ISP’s internet gateway. Bandwidth sharing between other non-Embassy customers is not allowed. Connection Ratio must be 1/1. Internet Service or data service transmission from the originating information server towards an end server is referred to as downstream; and a transmission from an end user towards the remote server is referred as upstream; Post Internet Service Provider (ISP) Contention Ratio (downstream / upstream) must be 1:1 /1:1. Internet Service Provider (ISP) must provide excellent Quality of Service (QOS) for the connection, that represents the level of consistent download capacity provided, must be the higher QOS percentage possible but, at minimum, greater than 99.97% or the highest possible quality of service connection reaching 100%. (ISP) Round Trip Time (RTT) reports the total time in milliseconds (ms) time to send a small data packet and obtain a reply back; must be the faster than 100ms for the Round Trip Time (RTT) for internet service. Also, RTT must be faster than 7ms for local data services (for instance: point-to-point channels or web pages accessed through Georgia’s Network Access Point (NAP). (ISP) must permit the transit of all Internet Protocol (IP) protocols (especially IPSec), all User Datagram Protocol (UDP) protocols, and all Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol. Filters or sniffers must not be established, connected, or introduced by the ISP for any Embassy channels. If there are any existing filters, sniffers, restrictions, or proxies, they must be identified, and removed prior line circuit installation. (ISP) must provide detailed network topology map that shows all possible paths ISP use for the internet traffic between ISP hub in Tbilisi, Georgia and the ISP hub in United States of America (USA). (ISP) must provide a block of 25 public internet IP addresses on a single subnet for Internet services The network devices shall comply with the following characteristics: Services provided by the (ISP) must be delivered with RJ-45 interface connectors with a 10/100baseT interface. (ISP) must provide routers and Data media converters or transmission devices in all cases. Power standard sources must be dual voltage (110v/60hz and 220v/50hz) Devices must be rack-mountable in a standard Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rack. The providers onsite equipment must not be from a wholly owned Chinese company such as Huawei. The preference is that onsite equipment will be Cisco. The awarded ISP must warrant service support 7X24X365.