JPMC - MCC Metro Ethernet

MCC Network Services, LLC was awarded a statewide joint purchase master contract by the State of Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) under Blanket Competitive Sealed Bidding solicitation 26-448DOIT-TELEC-P-97342. The contract, effective June 17, 2026, provides fiber-based Metro Ethernet transport services to support wide area network connectivity between designated Illinois locations and Illinois Century Network Points of Presence sites. The vendor, headquartered at 8 South Washington Street, Suite 200, Sullivan, Illinois 61951, is required to own fiber assets within Illinois to deliver services and may lease additional fiber to expand coverage. Service offerings include bandwidth capacities ranging from 100 megabits per second to 1 gigabit per second with guaranteed synchronous bandwidth and a maximum latency of 18 milliseconds. The contract is made available to all Illinois governmental units and qualified not-for-profit agencies through the Chief Procurement Officer for General Services.

The contract establishes an initial five-year term with a maximum total term not to exceed ten years including renewal terms and extensions. Service orders are issued on an as-needed basis with a standard 180-calendar-day deployment timeline from order acknowledgement, and the vendor must achieve 99.98 percent availability based on a 30-day average while maintaining 24/7/365 operational status. Pricing under this indefinite quantity blanket contract is all-inclusive with no additional charges permitted, and specific pricing details are located in individual BidBuy Purchase Orders. The contract amount reflects $0.00 as no firm commitment has been established; actual costs will be determined through service orders issued throughout the contract performance period ending June 16, 2031.