Discuss any service level agreements (SLA) that may be applicable to the solutions and/or technical support services the vendor offers.
A highly responsive answer will:
Indicate the vendor's standard uptime guarantees for each product or service included in your offer.
Provide the vendor's actual uptime or response time for the products and services included in the vendor's offer.
Indicate the recourse available to members for recurring or excessive downtime.
Identify performance benchmarks that would indicate performance failure.
Please label any standard SLA the vendor offers. Label the SLA document(s) as Attachment 8.16 and include the document(s) in the Attachments section of the response.
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Help Desk/Trouble Reporting
Discuss any technical support services that are provided by the vendor.
A highly responsive answer will:
Describe the help desk or technical support services the vendor provides for the products and services included in the offer.
Indicate the ways in which a member may request assistance or report trouble.
Indicate the hours for which service and support are available.
Indicate the physical location of all call centers into which a member's call may be directed.
Describe your organization's standard response to trouble reports. (Include standard response times for email, Web and telephone inquiries. Indicate average time to resolution.)
Describe your trouble-reporting and tracking system.
Describe how is progress communicated to the MiCTA member.
Describe your escalation procedures. Indicate the points at which a trouble ticket is automatically escalated.
Describe your organization's escalated response.
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8.17Training, Consulting and Professional Services
Discuss any training, consulting and professional services the vendor offers.
A highly responsive answer will:
Provide a complete description of the services available.
Include the scope and limitations of these services.
Describe how are the costs for these services are determined. (Do not include specific cost information in your response. Pricing for these services should be supplied in Schedule 1 and placed in your cost proposal.
Response:
9E-911 Equipment and Services
This section is designed to help vendors describe the E911 capabilities of proposed E911 systems that would be deployed at PSAP locations. The tables in this section are based upon the current NENA E911 Recommended Generic Standards for E911 PSAP equipment (NENA04-001, v1), August 23, 2000.
Vendors are not required to respond to this section, however vendors that choose to respond to this section must provide a response for each question. The Evaluation Committee will compare and evaluate each vendor response according to the criteria that define a highly responsive answer. For this section, a highly responsive answer includes an indication of standards compliance for each item requested.
Vendors whose technical proposals include a significant number of partially responsive or non-responsive answers risk elimination.
9.1Solution Description(s)
Provide a complete description of the proposed E-911 solution the vendor will offer to MiCTA members. If the vendor offers more than one E-911 solution, the vendor must provide a complete description of all proposed solutions.
A highly responsive answer will:
Identify the proposed solution as a hardware, software, or third-party service solution.
For hardware or hardware-software hybrid solutions, identify the manufacturer and model number(s) of the proposed solution(s).
Identify the minimum and recommended telecommunications and/or IP access required to support the proposed solution.
Describe the features and benefits of the propose solution.
Describe the known limitations of the proposed solution, including a description of existing implementations the solution will not interoperate with.
For hardware, software and hardware-software hybrid solutions, provide the manufacturer's operational specifications for the proposed solution.
Identify any state in which the proposed solution does not meet existing legislative requirements for the reception of E-911 information, or in which the solution is not available.
Discuss primary solution failure and the built-in or available backup options, if any, the solution offers.
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9.2Basic Solution Features
Please indicate the availability of the following basic E911 features in the proposed solution.
Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) (CPE or Central Office Based)
For each response in the table above, please provide a complete explanation of responses that indicate the proposed solution provides only partial standard support, or does not support an identified standard at all. Response: