West Covina is looking for a vendor to build, own and run a citywide wireless mesh network to cover 17 square miles (44 square kilometers). The city is located 18 miles east of downtown Los Angeles and has 123,000 residents. The city will use the network for residential and business access, as well as municipal operations (public safety, code enforcement, West Covina is looking for a vendor to build, own and run a citywide wireless mesh network to cover 17 square miles (44 square kilometers). The city is located 18 miles east of downtown Los Angeles and has 123,000 residents. The city will use the network for residential and business access, as well as municipal operations (public safety, code enforcement, asset management and traffic systems). Although the city owns a number of light poles for mounting mesh nodes, the vendor will have to negotiate with Southern California Edison for rights to mount on SCE’s poles (see this article on SCE’s less than enthusiastic response to Diamond Bar’s (a nearby city) muni Wi-Fi plans).
The deadline for responses is 27 September 2006 at 13:00. There will be a pre-proposal meeting on 14 September 2006 from 13:00-14:30. Download the RFP from the West Covina website:
www.westcovina.org/business/ln060823q.html
No comments yet.