Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide VPN Ethernet transport services for the Marion VA Health Care System in Marion, IL. The contractor will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a LEADS 3.0 connection via the Illinois Century Network (ICN) using a private Ethernet transport circuit. The service shall be logically segmented from the VA production network and shall support LEADS access only, in accordance with Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) and VA security requirements. The contractor shall provide all labor, materials, equipment, transport services, and coordination necessary to establish and maintain the LEADS 3.0 connection.
Some key requirements of the contract include:
• Providing a private Ethernet transport circuit from the Marion VA Health Care System to an ICN point of presence (POP) as required by the State of Illinois
• Upgrading or retaining currently installed equipment to provide the fiber transport circuit and all other items or software required to complete the circuit for functional LEADS service
• Providing and installing any new fiber or copper cabling needed between the telecom demarc and the MDF/IDF rack where the DoIT router and VA network equipment reside
• Supporting 802.1X or other strong device/user authentication methods as required by VA security and CJIS
• Ensuring that any personnel with access to LEADS-connected infrastructure or the DoIT router are CJIS-screened and meet all applicable CJIS Security Policy requirements