The National Cancer Institute awarded a purchase order to Zayo Group LLC on September 29, 2026, for network connectivity fiber network backbone services with a ceiling value of $3,335,216.68 and a firm fixed price.
Place of performance is Bethesda, Maryland. The order covers design, deployment, and operation of a dedicated fiber network backbone connecting five NCI locations in Maryland and two cloud interconnect sites in Northern Virginia, including redundant 100 Gbps logical connections between Fort Detrick and Bethesda, dual 10 Gbps links from Rockville/Shady Grove to Northern Virginia, and dual 10 Gbps links from Frederick to Northern Virginia, with planned 40–100 Gbps upgrade path from Rockville to Bethesda. Services include fiber plant provisioning, equipment acquisition, configuration, deployment, 24/7/365 network operations with 15-minute Priority 1 incident response, 99.99% monthly availability, end-to-end encryption using FIPS 140-3 validated modules, and FedRamp certification or NIST moderate baseline security authorization. All services, personnel, and data handling are U.S.-based. The ultimate completion date is September 28, 2031. The order originated from solicitation 140D0426Q0575, posted August 24, 2026, with a due date of September 14, 2026.