MuniWireless

Yesterday, I posted a notice of public tender from Union City, New Jersey for their wireless camera project. The official bid document is on MuniWireless:

UnionCamera-Bid Doc-v10e-Public Release

If you are going to bid on this project, make sure that you contact the municipal clerk. The city may amend the bid at a later time so you don’t want to rely on this document alone.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed Bids will be received by the Board of Commissioners…

Union City, New Jersey, has issued a public tender seeking bidders to set up a wireless network with video cameras. Read the official bid notice below.

[I posted the document today on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26051646/Union-City-NJ-wireless-camera-project-bid]

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed Bids will be received by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Union City, County of Hudson, State of New Jersey on April 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM prevailing time in the City Clerk’s Office, second floor, 3715 Palisade…

Anoka County, Minnesota (430 square miles; pop: 320,000) has just posted an RFP seeking a partner to help it get a grant from the NTIA for broadband in the county. The deadline for responses is 14 December 2009 at 16:00. I have posted the main RFP document on Scribd. If you are serious about responding to the RFP, you need to go to the county’s bid website because there are other appendices you need to download.

Below is an excerpt from…

Golden Gate Ferries has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Wi-Fi service on board the ferries between San Francisco and Sausalito as well as Larkspur. Golden Gate Ferries will not pay any money for the deployment of the network, but will allow the Wi-Fi operator to charge for the service. The term of the contract is five years with two additional one-year options to extend the agreement. The deadline for submitting responses is 11 August 2009 at 14:00 Pacific…

NYCwireless, a non-profit organization founded in 2001 that enables free, public Wi-Fi access, has posted its response to the NY Parks RFI. Here is an excerpt from their response concerning the city’s unwise insistence on funding the network through advertising:

NYCwireless fundamentally believes and the industry has seen countless times (including the companies MetroFi and EarthLink, and cities San Francisco and Portland, for example) that Ad-based business models are unsustainable for individual hotspots and even reasonable sized hotspot networks. If DoITT and…

Several weeks ago, I posted the Request for Information issued by the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) seeking providers for free Wi-Fi service in NYC parks. The DoITT has just posted their responses to questions asked by prospective bidders:

Question #1: Is the WiFi Salon equipment still in place at locations that were actually built? Has it been abandoned? If so, can it be used by the successful bidder?

Answer: The WiFi Salon equipment is no longer in…