SLED Opportunity · WASHINGTON · CITY OF SEATTLE
AI Summary
City of Seattle seeks vendors for communications cabling installation, maintenance, and design services for LAN/WAN networks across 350 sites. Work includes fiber and copper cabling inside and outside plant. Contracts form a vendor pool to support a growing network serving 14,000 employees.
The purpose of this solicitation is to contract with a pool of vendors to provide communications cabling, installation, testing, maintenance, administration and repairs to new and previously installed Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN) and other voice, data, or video systems. Low voltage communications cabling includes fiber optic cable, coaxial cable, and copper twisted pair cable. Inside work will include riser, distribution, and station cabling installations in new buildings, major renovated buildings, and additions to existing cabling networks. Outside work will include installation and maintenance of aerial and underground cabling for inter-building connectivity.
Additionally, the City seeks optional bids for cabling design from qualified vendors.
The communications networks include approximately 350 sites within Seattle city limits to support approximately 14,000 employees. Examples of the sites are fire stations, community centers, and downtown office buildings. IT also plans, manages, and operates a secure, region-wide communications network. This network recently grew to over 750+ miles of fiber optic cable and will continue to grow.
The City employs staff to plan and manage the networks, and to install parts of the networks. Seattle places a high value on its relationships with private cabling companies in the installation, maintenance, and growth of the City’s inside-plant and outside-plant communications network.
The City has held a pool of successful contracts for this work since 2010. However, the current contracts are set to expire and all renewal options have been exhausted. Therefore, the City is returning to the marketplace to establish a pool of new contracts. The current contracts for this work will be closed.
During 2025, the City paid vendors approximately $2 million collectively for communications cabling services.
Communications Cabling Categories for Bid
The City seeks bids from qualified vendors for the following communications cabling services and vendors may submit a bid for any or all of the following scopes:
• Fiber Cabling Inside Plant
• Fiber Cabling Outside Plant
• Copper Cabling Inside Plant
• Copper Cabling Outside Plant
Locations
Most projects related to this Invitation to Bid are located within King County. All Vendors must be able to perform work within King County in order to submit a bid.
Vendors may also elect to perform work within Pend Oreille County, Pierce County, Skagit County, Snohomish County, and Spokane County.
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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