Addenum Two_RFP 2026-03 Virtual Private Network and Internetworking Management Services

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RFP 2026-03 VPN and INM Services ADDENDUM TWO DATE: August 19, 2026 TO: All Respondents FROM: Sheila Brown, Procurement/Contract Administrator RE: ADDENDUM #2 Questions and Answers MHA Responses are in red 1) You have shared in your Addendum One document that CSpire is currently the ISP for all 7 of your operational sites. In what manner are the 6ea remote locations connected back to the MHA Central Office - DIA Internet circuits, CSpire's private network, etc? CSpire network 2) Will all public Internet services and traffic flow from each of the remote sites directly to the Internet or does all traffic flow back to the MHA Central Office through CSpire's private network and then to the public Internet? Back to central office 3) If traffic flows from the MHA Central Office back to the remote sites through CSpire's private network will a vpn gateway only be required to be installed at the MHA Central Office location, especially if all public traffic from the remote sites flow back through the MHA Central Office location? If there is a CSpire Private network, does it provide all of the data/network security measures that the MHA requires or does MHA require an additional layer of security across the telco's/CSpire's private network if this is the deployment manner of choice? Yes, VPN gateway will be at central office. 4) Would it be possible to have a copy of the CSpire network diagram of its ISP footprint across all 7ea of the MHA Housing Authority's locations? Not at this time. 5) If network traffic that flows between each of the MHA remote sites and the Central office flows across the CSpire private network does the Montgomery Housing Authority still require encrypted VPN tunnels between the Central Office site and the 6e MHA remote sites or will the CSpire private network, if this is the current deployment scheme, provide enough security isolation for the MHA private/ corporate data to flow while still provide AAA(authentication, authorization and accounting) levels of security? No, tunnels to the central office will remain with CSpire.