Item 340/2025
Final
City of Garden Grove
INTER-DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM
To:
Lisa L. Kim From: Anand Rao
Dept:
City Manager Dept: Information Technology
Date: 10/14/2025
Subject: Award contracts to Crown Castle Fiber LLC (Cost: $90,000) and AT&T/Nobilite Communications, LLC (Cost: $136,410.63), to provide direct internet access services. (Action Item)
OBJECTIVE
For the City Council to award contracts to both Crown Castle Fiber LLC and AT& T/Nobilite Communications, LLC , to provide direct internet access services with a total amount of $226,410.68.
BACKGROUND
The City is establishing a new facility requiring high -availability internet access with guaranteed uptime. The City maintains its own Autonomous System (AS) number and IP addressing, requiring BGP peering capabilities with selected providers. The design of this procurement is intended to eliminate single points of failure in Internet connectivity. The City intended to select two or m ore providers to ensure diverse physical pathways to maintain internet connectivity in the event of infrastructure failures.
DISCUSSION
A Request for Proposal “RFP S -1375” was advertised on July 1, 2025 for redundant direct internet access services. The requirements for this RFP were to include the infrastructure and services. On August 20, 2025, two proposers submitted multiple options that met the City’s RFP requirements.
A panel of three staff members evaluated the RFP proposals based on criteria of: Proposer Qualifications (50 points), Project Cost (40), and Completeness of Response (10). Both Crown Castle Fiber LLC and AT&T/Nobilite Communications, LLC provided solutions that best met all the City’s requirements.
Item 340/2025
The final proposal scores are as follows:
RFP S-1375 Direct Internet Service
Crown
Castle 1
(5 Yr)
Crown
Castle 2
Crown
Castle 3
Nobilite
3 (3 Yr)
Nobilite
1 Nobilite
5 Nobilite
6 Nobilite
4 Nobilite
2 291 234 207 170 161 139 136 88 85
Proposers were required to provide pricing for three (3) and five (5) year options of 1 Gbps and 10Gbps for proposed internet access services.
All proposed pricing was well below CALNET Contract pricing [https://cdt.ca.gov/services/calnet-services/].
FINANCIAL IMPACT
The cost of the contract with Crown Castle Fiber LLC is $90,000, and $136,410.63 with AT&T/Nobilite Communications, LLC, for a total of $226,410.63 for direct internet access services. This amount is included in the adopted operating budget of the Telecommunications Internal Service Fu nd. Monthly charges will be $1,500 from Crown Castle Fiber LLC and $3,783.63 from AT&T/Nobilite Communications, LLC, with a one-time setup fee of $199.95.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council:
Award a five (5) year contract to Crown Castle Fiber LLC in the amount of $90,000, to provide direct internet access services;
Award a three (3) year contract to Nobilite Communicaitons, LLC in the amount of $136,410.63, to provide direct internet access services; Authorize the City Manager, or designee(s), to execute the agreements and make minor amendments or modifications as necessary on behalf of the City; and Authorize the City Manager, or designee(s), to execute future amendments to the contracts, including the authorization to enter into option years, provided sufficient funds are available.
ATTACHMENT(S)
1. AT&T Nobilite Contract Pricing
2. Crown Castle Contract
3. Crown Castle Internet Supplement
4. Crown Castle Sales Order Form