CALNET 3 will provide telecommunication services for state and local agencies and will replace CALNET 2 when completed.
According to a California Technology Agency press release, the 21 awarded agreements were based on a competitive procurement process which pre-qualified prospective vendors that were exceptionally compliant with administrative requirements and were responsible bidders. This list of pre-qualified bidders will be refreshed in the coming months to ensure a competitive pool of bidders.
The PMAC awards went to the following vendors:
- AT&T
- Avaya
- Century Link
- Evolve
- Frontier
- Fujitsu
- Hughes
- Insight
- Integra
- Jive
- Nexus IS
- NWN
- Sprint
- TW Telecomm
- Verizon California, Inc.
- MCImetro Access Transmission Services, LLC
- MCI Communications Services, Inc.
- Verizon Select Services, Inc.
- Verizon Wireless
- VIP
- Windstream
