The campus firewall RFP bid review committee, comprised of 10 individuals
from IET and the TIF, reviewed four vendor bids throughout the past two
weeks. Of the four, two vendors (Accuvant, Inc. and Corsa Network
Technologies, both Netscreen resellers) met the selection criteria and
have been invited to make design presentations to the committee on April
21 and 23. Each vendor will present three designs based on use case
scenarios developed by the RFP bid review committee. The committee will
then evaluate the designs and pricing, and combine the resulting scores
with the RFP bid scores to select a single finalist based on "cost per
quality point." The chosen vendor will participate in a pilot test this
June, to be held at the vendor's site.