Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide VPN Ethernet transport services to support the Illinois Law Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS 3.0) connectivity at the Marion VA Health Care Center. The contractor will be responsible for providing a dedicated transport circuit and associated services to access LEADS 3.0 through the currently installed Police Desktop computer at the Marion VA Health Care System. The transport circuit will use the Illinois Century Network (ICN) and must be approved by the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) and LEADS as an acceptable provider for Illinois Century Network (ICN) Point-of-Presence connectivity. The contractor must also meet Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) security and background screening requirements.
Key aspects of the job include:
• Providing all labor, materials, equipment, transport services, and coordination necessary to establish and maintain a LEADS 3.0 connection via the Illinois Century Network (ICN)
• 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 services and support at the locations identified in the Performance Work Statement
• Ensuring logical segmentation from the VA production network and supporting LEADS access only, in accordance with CJIS and VA security requirements
• Providing a minimum of 10-20 Mbps dedicated bandwidth for LEADS traffic and ensuring a minimum service level of 99.9% availability
• Cooperating with VA and ISP LEADS Administration in incident response, logging, and investigations related to LEADS or criminal justice information
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Contact
Erika Kobulnicky(Primary contact)