Interior and Exterior Cabling Services

The City of Portland, Oregon requires a vendor to provide interior and exterior cabling services, specifically focusing on the fusion splicing, termination, testing, maintenance, and emergency restoration and repair of City fiber optic cable at various locations. The immediate problem involves a buried conduit containing one ninety-six-strand fiber optic cable that has been damaged at a construction site. All work must be performed onsite under the direction of City Project Managers. The agency requires the installed fiber optic cable to have a life expectancy of at least thirty years. The cable must withstand water penetration when tested with a one-meter static head or equivalent continuous pressure applied at one end of a one-meter length of filled cable for one hour. Additionally, the finished cables must have a crush resistance of two hundred twenty Newtons per centimeter, or one hundred twenty-six pound-force per inch, applied uniformly over the length of the cable without showing evidence of cracking or splitting when tested in accordance with TIA/EIA-455-25C, FOTP-25. The cable must not exhibit any measurable increase in attenuation after the removal of the load. Eligibility is restricted to onshore organizations based in the United States. The agency is looking for proposals to determine the budget for this project. No specific key dates or detailed evaluation criteria are provided in the source materials.