SOEN in Transition

Oregon's Department of Administrative Services is currently preparing to reissue its telecommunications RFP

Joyce Winslow
jwins@oregon.uoregon.edu

The State of Oregon Enterprise Network, or SOEN, has gone back to the drawing board with its Request for Proposal (RFP) to Oregon telecommunications providers. The new RFP is expected to be released later this month.

The current Fastpacket network contract officially expired last November, although it may still be extended for another year.

The SOEN project, which operates under the aegis of Oregon's Department of Administrative Services (DAS), is charged with providing network connectivity for state agencies throughout Oregon (see http://enterprise.das.state.or.us)

Higher education institutions (including the University of Oregon) as well as K-12 schools, public libraries, hospitals, and local governments, where desirable, may eventually buy telecommunications services from this state contract.