Request for Bids Bus Radio Replacement 2024.pdf

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Replacement of Radios on School Buses
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PE-73610-NONST-2024-000000007
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Terrell County, Georgia

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This document is a Request for Bid Proposals (RFB) issued by the Thomas County Schools for the replacement of radios on school buses and support vehicles, as well as the provision of handheld radios. The existing radio system is a Motorola "Mototrbo Capacity Plus" system, and the new radios must be fully compatible with this system. The RFB specifies the quantities of various radio types required, including 95 bus/truck radios, 4 control stations, and 28 portable radios, as well as the reprogramming of 137 existing portable radios. The bid responses must be submitted by 2:00 PM on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, and the radios must be delivered, installed, and programmed during the school system's summer break, which begins on May 21, 2024, and ends on July 22, 2024.

The RFB includes unit pricing and total package pricing for the required radio equipment and services. No substitutions are allowed, and the Thomas County Board of Education reserves the right to award the bid in whole or in part, and to waive any technicalities. The bid award will be made to the vendor deemed to be in the best interest of the school district.

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Request for Bid Proposals

Thomas County Schools – Replacement of Radios on School buses and Support Vehicles and Providing Hand-held Radios

Thomas County Schools Contact:

Dr. Jim Rehberg

Director of Facilities and Operations

Thomas County Schools

200 North Pinetree Boulevard

Thomasville, GA 31792

Phone: 229-584-9164

Email: jrehberg@tcjackets.net

The Thomas County School System has an existing Motorola “Mototrbo Capacity Plus” Radio System in its schools that is supported by a tower located at the Thomas County Bus Garage located at 100 Charlie Ward Boulevard, Thomasville, Georgia 31792.

This is a request for bids for a vendor to furnish and install new radios on school buses and in support vehicles and provide handheld radios as specified in the chart below. Please note that all radios must work on the existing Mototrbo

Capacity Plus System. All installations in vehicles must be completed onsite at the Thomas County Bus Garage located at

100 Charlie Ward Boulevard, Thomasville, Georgia 31792. All reprogramming of existing radios must be completed onsite at each of the district’s locations where the radios are located: Hand-in-Hand Primary School, Garrison-Pilcher

Elementary School, Cross Creek Elementary School, Thomas County Middle School, Thomas County Central High

School, Bishop Hall Charter School, the Renaissance Center, Pathways Educational Program, and the Thomas County

Board of Education.

Please provide unit pricing and a total package price in the chart below.

Quantity Description Unit

Pricing

Pricing

95 Motorola XPR5550e Bus/Truck Radios—UHF, 40 Watts, complete with antenna, programming, and installation

4 Motorola XPR5550e Control Stations—UHF, 40 Watts, complete with antenna, power supply, desk mic, programming, and installation

28 Motorola XPR3500e Portable Radios—UHF, 4 Watts, complete with battery, charger, antenna, belt clip, Capacity Plus License, and programming

137 Reprogram existing XPR3500e radios to include the new Bus Channel

Any labor, installation, or other devices or costs required to supply, install, and place in service the radio system described above

Total bid price for this project $

Radios must be delivered, installed, and programmed during the school system’s summer break which begins May 21, 2024, and ends July 22, 2024. No substitutions are allowed on this bid as the new radios must be fully compatible with the existing system.

Please provide bid pricing by 2:00 PM on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. Bids may be emailed to dkornegay@tcjackets.net, mailed to the address at the top of this page, or hand delivered to the Thomas County Board of

Education. Bids will be opened at 2:00 PM on February 28 in the Board Meeting Room located at 200 North Pinetree

Blvd., Thomasville, GA 31792. The Thomas County Board of Education reserves the right to waive technicalities and to award the bid that it deems to be in the best interest of the school district. The bid may be awarded in whole or in part.

Signature: _________________________________ Date: ______________________

Company: _____________________________________________________________

Contact Phone Number: _____________________ Email Address: ________________

Address: ________________________________, _______________________________ mailto:dkornegay@tcjackets.net mailto:dkornegay@tcjackets.net

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