Project Information

Bid Title

B026027 Fiber Connectivity for Agri Ed Bldg

Issuing Agency

Arkansas Tech University

Location

Arkansas

Published Date

May 27, 2026

Closing Date

Jun 16, 2026

Government Level

State & Local

Status

Closed

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Project Description

Open Date	Job Description	Status
June 16, 2026 2 p.m.	B026027 Fiber Connectivity for Agri Ed Bldg	Open

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INVITATION FOR BID – BID NO. B026027

New Agriculture Education Building Fiber Connectivity Project

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ARKANSAS TECH UNIVERSITY

Procurement Services

514 West M Street

Russellville, AR 72801-2222

479-968-0269

purchasing@atu.edu

All responses must be submitted using this form.

Responses must be received in Procurement Services

Bid Response: at the address above by the date and time shown

Formal Sealed Bid below. In a sealed envelope with the bid number

clearly marked on the front. Faxed or email responses

are not acceptable.

RESPONSE DUE BY:

June 16, 2026

TIME: 2 p.m.

Mandatory site visit: June 8, 2026 at 10 a.m. Attendees meet at ATU

Agriculture Education Building Site located at 417 N Phoenix Avenue

Russellville, AR 72801.

Company Name and Address:

For additional information,

__________________________________________

contact:

Jennifer Warren

__________________________________________ Tel: 479-968-0269

E-mail: jwarren2@atu.edu

__________________________________________ Web Site:

http://www.atu.edu/purchasing

AWARD:

Award will be made in the best interest of the University, and the

University’s decision is final. Contract and Grant Disclosure,

Combined Boycott and Illegal Immigrant Certification Form, and EEO

Policy forms must be completed before purchase order can be

released. Forms can be accessed via the web -here.

INTERGOVERNMENTAL/COOPERATIVE USE OF PROPOSAL AND CONTRACT: In

accordance with Arkansas Code §19-11-249, this proposal and resulting contract is

available to any college or university in Arkansas that wishes to utilize the services of the

selected proposer, and the proposer agrees, they may enter into an agreement as provided

in this RFP.

ATU is soliciting sealed bids from all qualified contractors to provide all labor,

materials, equipment, and supervision to complete the project described herein.

Project: Fiber Connectivity for Agricultural Education Building. Preferred project

start date on or near August 7, 2026 but not required. Alternatively, the university

seeks for the project to begin late August or early September 2026.

Scope of Work: Option A see attachment 1

Scope of Work: Option B see attachment 2

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Bid bond of 5% of total bid is required and must be included in bid response for all

responses over $50,000.

List any subcontractors to be used. An additional page may be added to response if needed.

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Cost Response

Option A

Lump Sum Cost Response: $_______________________

Option B

Lump Sum Cost Response: $_______________________

Addendum Acknowledgement

Addendum Number(s): __________________

Signature Block

Company Name: ____________________________________________________________________

Signature & Title: ____________________________________________________________________

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Submission Checklist:

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Complete Company Name and Address field

Complete response form fields

Complete all signature block fields and sign

Bid Bond (5%)

Acknowledge Addendum (if any)

Certificate of Commercial Liability Insurance

Copy of Arkansas Contractor License

Completed Contract and Grant Disclosure Form for your company and all subcontractors.

Completed Combined Restriction and Illegal Immigrant Certification Form

EEOC policy form and backup documentation

Seal entire response in an envelope and deliver to ATU Procurement 514 West M Street

Russellville, AR 72802 by date and time listed on page 1. Late responses will not be accepted.

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Attachment 1

Option A

New Agri Building Basic Fiber Connectivity Scope of Work

Introduction

The following is a scope of work for the installation of infrastructure and fiber for the new Agri building

and classroom at the Arkansas Tech University Russellville Campus. This project will involve:

• Installation of new underground conduit

• Installation of new ground vaults

• Where new ground vaults are to be installed intersecting existing conduit, cut open the existing

conduit to provide access while being careful not to damage existing active fiber.

• Installation, labeling, termination, and certification of new singlemode fiber between designated

locations. Certification documentation must be provided to ATU at project completion.

• Installation of Tracesafe wiring to be run in any conduit that does not already have Tracesafe.

Termination of Tracesafe should be done in each ground vault/handhold.

• Creation of as-built documentation and maps of the new conduit routes, spliceboxes, and ground

vaults/handholds. Documentation and maps must be provided to ATU at project completion.

Materials

All materials are to be provided by the contractor, unless otherwise noted. Contractor is responsible for

all parts, tools, and labor needed to complete the project.

In addition to the model of parts specified necessary for the project, the contractor shall also provide:

• Parts, tools, labor, and materials to install new 1 x 4” conduit paths

• Parts, tools, labor, and materials to install new ground vaults/handholds

• Tools and labor to run 12-strand fiber through conduit and into splice box

• Parts, tools, labor, and materials to add Tracesafe cable to any conduit part of this project that does

not already have a Tracesafe cable present along the run

• Tools and labor to fusion splice, certify, and label single mode fiber

• Parts, labor, and materials to add pull tape to leave in conduit with new pulls for future use

The following are the materials needed for installation. If a vendor and part number is provided below, no

substitutions will be accepted without approval by ATU unless otherwise noted:

• Multilink Part # CT-X-PS-CL-12-SCU-P CTX Patch and Splice Cassettes - Each splice cassette

comes with a 12-strand Singlemode pigtail which can be fusion spliced to the fiber bundle run.

Connectors should be Singlemode SC. Each cassette is for 12 connections. These cassettes can be

mounted in the rack shelves specified below as well as the Multilink Splice boxes specified above.

• Multilink Part # 045-665-00 1RU Fiber Shelf – Rack-mounted fiber shelf that can hold two CTX

splice cassettes. Suitable to terminate up to 24-strand fibers. Also requires Multilink Part # 072-

208-50 which should be the bulkhead for the 2 cassette 1RU shelf.

• All materials to provide orange 19-awg Trace-Safe RT1800W wires and locating connector

terminations with any fiber run in this project running through a conduit that does not already have

a Trace-Safe cable installed. Trace-Safe should be cut and terminated at each splice box and

ground vault. See attached cutsheet.

• Materials to label new fiber runs. Labeling needs to be done in the box, both on the door label and

as a tag on each fiber coming up from the splice box, to indicate what cassettes go to which

location and engraved waterproof tags need to be added to the fiber in each ground vault/handhold

to indicate what runs they belong to.

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• All labor and materials run, fusion terminate, test/certify, and label all required Single mode fiber runs.

The fiber should be OCC Part # DX012DSLA9KAA2 fiber – 12-strand armored tight-buffer singlemode fiber

to run between the building and the Multilink splice box. See attached cutsheet. (If this part is not

available, substitutions would be accepted as long as the new fiber meets or exceeds the specs listed in

this cutsheet).

• Conduit installed between existing and/or new ground vaults should be a single 4-inch

• New ground vaults should be at least 2-foot x 4-foot in size with split lids and open bottom

o Proper drainage with a drainage layer should be installed at the bottom of each new ground

vault

If there are any questions on part numbers or materials that the contractor is responsible for, please

contact the ATU Office of Information Systems before purchase.

Project

The project consists of installation of two new ground vaults, one of which to be installed over existing

conduit and then to open those conduits up for future fiber runs, the installation of TraceSafe cable in all

sections of the conduit, and the installation, termination, labeling, and certification of singlemode fiber to

run from inside the new Agri building, through the new vaults and conduits, until it meets the existing

vault just South of the ATU Facilities Management building. From there, the fiber will turn South and

use existing conduit and vault infrastructure until it reaches Paine Hall at the intersection of West Q Street

and North Glenwood Avenue. It will then be pulled into the existing Multilink splicebox pedestal and

terminated. For cassette placement in the Multilink box, box-to-box cassettes should be at the top and

added going downward while building-to-box cassettes should start on the bottom and added going up.

The Agri building does not currently have a data closet or conduit entry point for fiber. These will be

constructed during the time of this project. Conduit work and the vault installations can and should occur

while building construction is happening so that the construction can include a conduit tie-in to the

ground vault being installed near the building as part of this scope of work. This means that there will

need to be a delay in running the fiber into the building and terminating until the entry conduit and data

closet exist and are ready.

Inside the Agri building, the fiber should be terminated into a Multilink CTX cassette and then mounted

in to the compatible Multilink shelf. On the end connecting to the splice box, it will need to be terminated

into a Multilink CTX cassette which the splice box is designed to accommodate.

Required Work

The fiber run will require new conduit and ground vault installs between the new Agri building and the

existing ground vault to the South of the Facilities Management office building. You can see in the image

below, the Agri building is built in the area indicated by the red square, the existing vault is indicated by a

blue square, and the splice box the fiber must be run to is indicated by the green square. The existing

conduit is shown in orange.

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Commodity Codes

• NAICS 238210Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors

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