Telecommunications Services
PURPOSE: The City of Charlottesville is soliciting bids from qualified vendors to provide telecommunications services to the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (hereafter JMRL). JMRL is a multi-jurisdiction system headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. It serves five political jurisdictions in Central Virginia with a population of 195,000 and covers approximately 1,900 square miles. The jurisdictions include the City of Charlottesville and the Counties of Albemarle, Greene, Louisa and Nelson.
The library system consists of a Central Library in Charlottesville and seven remote sites in the areas served. The remote sites include the Gordon Avenue Branch (Charlottesville), the Northside Branch (Albemarle), and branch libraries in Scottsville (Albemarle), Crozet (Albemarle), Mineral (Louisa County), Lovingston (Nelson County) and Stanardsville (Greene County).
All branches are presently connected to library servers through frame relay circuits at T1 bandwidth terminating at the City of Charlottesvilles computer center in the City Hall Annex on Seventh Street.
