Network Load Balancer Appliances

2026-11-03

PECIFICATIONS 1 . 2 . PURPOSE AND SCOPE : The West Virginia Purchasing Division is soliciting bids on behalf of West Virginia Office of Technology to establish a contract for the purchase of new network load balancer appliances . The network load balancer appliances will reroute network traffic to a secondary set of servers in the event the primary servers become unresponsive . In addition , they provide flexibility to take a host or primary site down for maintenance while the load is redirected . Network traffic load is balanced across a number of hosts , which enhances the scalability and availability of mission critical IP - based services such as virtual private networks , streaming media , terminal services , and proxies . Multiple lines of business applications are hosted behind these devices to ensure business continuity of the state government in the event of a disaster or failure . The high availability that is provided detects host failures and automatically redistributes traffic to operational hosts . 3 . GENERAL REQUIREMENTS : 3 . 1 Mandatory Contract Item Requirements : Contract Item must meet or exceed the mandatory requirements listed below . Network Load Balancer Appliances : 3 . 1 . 1 Commodity Line 1 : Vendor must provide a quantity of three ( 3 ) A10 Thunder 3350S Network Load Balancers , Part Number : TH3350S - 020 - CFWFIPS " or Equal ". Thunder 3350S Network Load Balancer or Equal must contain the following hardware specifications : 3 . 1 . 1 . 1 Must fit in 1U of rack space 3 . 1 . 1 . 2 Must have a minimum of 1 Central Processing Unit 3 . 1 . 1 . 3 Must have a minimum of 6 1Gb over Copper ports 3 . 1 . 1 . 4 Must have a minimum of 2 1Gb ( SFP ) Fiber ports 3 . 1 . 1 . 5 Must have a minimum of 4 10Gb ( SFP +) Fiber ports 3 . 1 . 1 . 6 Must have a minimum of 32GB of RAM ( ECC ) 3 . 1 . 1 . 7 Must be equipped with a Solid State Drive ( SSD ) 3 . 1 . 1 . 8 Must feature Hardware acceleration / SSL Offload 3 . 1 . 1 . 9 Must support Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol supplement - A ( VRRP - A ) Failover 3 . 1 . 1 . 10 Must have FIPS 140 - 2 certification or better 3 . 1 . 1 . 11 Must support Layer 4 - 7 load balancing 3 . 1 . 1 . 12 Any appliance listed as refurbished or " like new " condition will be disqualified . Optical Transceivers : 3 . 1 . 2 Commodity Line 2 : Vendor must provide a quantity of three ( 3 ) each per appliance for a total quantity of nine , 10Gb SR - Optical Transceiver for the A10 Thunder AX 3350 Appliance , Part Number : AXSK - SFP + SR " or Equal " 3 . 1 . 2 . 1 Transceivers must be compatible with the Thunder 3350 Network Load Balancer or Equal product bid on Commodity Line 1 3 . 1 . 2 . 2 Vendor must submit documentation that the Transceivers are certified by the manufacturer upon delivery 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 Any networking components listed as refurbished or " like new " condition will be disqualified . Training : 3 . 1 . 3 Commodity Line 3 : Vendor must provide a quantity of one ( 1 ) seat for training on Application Delivery Controller ( ADC ) Administration Course , SKU : AX - TR " or Equal ". 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 Vendor must provide instructor - led training course at the vendor ' s facility . The course must cover the following topics . 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 1 Advanced Core Operating System Management 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 2 Load balancing 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 3 HTTP protocol 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 4 HTTPS protocol 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 5 Acceleration 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 6 Security 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 7 High Availability 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 8 Troubleshooting 3 . 1 . 3 . 1 . 9 aFlex Hardware Maintenance and Support : 3 . 1 . 4 Commodity Line 4 : Vendor must provide a quantity of 1 each Gold Support Service Program for Three appliances listed in section 3 . 1 . 1 for a total quantity of 2 Gold Support Service Program " or Equal " For 3 year period , with 2 , 1 year renewals . 3 . 1 . 4 . 1 Vendor will provide technical phone support 24 hours a day , 7 days a week . 3 . 1 . 4 . 2 Vendor will provide software updates , patches , and releases . 3 . 1 . 4 . 3 Vendor will provide advanced hardware replacement in the event of failure for the length of the contract . 3 . 1 . 4 . 3 . 1 System failure will be confirmed by phone support or email support . 3 . 1 . 4 . 3 . 2 Tech support personnel must issue a Return Material Authorization ( RMA ) number . 3 . 1 . 4 . 3 . 3 Replacement hardware must be new . Hardware listed as refurbished , reconditioned , or " like new " condition will not be accepted . 3 . 1 . 4 . 3 . 4 The advance replacement should be received the next business day .

West Virginia

2026-05-02