NET-16741 - USA (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) - Firewall Replacement Services - Deadline August 6,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide firewall replacement services to the government authority located in Hattiesburg, MS.• Stateful packet inspection.• Application–aware firewall policies.• User identity–based policies.• Network address translation.• IPv4 and IPv6.• Static routing.• Policy–based routing.• VLAN trunking.• Link aggregation.• Virtual routing and forwarding or equivalent.• Quality of service.• High availability failover.• Integrated SD–WAN capabilities: The solution shall include integrated SD–WAN features to optimize traffic path selection based on application performance, latency, and jitter. • The solution shall be backed by a global, real–time threat intelligence network that provides automated updates for security signatures, reputation data, and indicators of compromise.• The solution shall support continuous analysis of files, including retrospective alerting if a file is later determined to be malicious after initial inspection. • Site–to–site IPsec VPN.• Remote access VPN.• IKEv2.• AES–256 encryption.(2) A contract period will be for five years.