The Quilt leverages the collective purchasing power of its participants to enable The Quilt community to purchase advanced network services at a lower cost. Towards this goal, The Quilt screens and qualifies CIS vendors who meet the community’s requirements through a Quilt RFP process and then negotiates favorable pricing with Quilt-approved CIS vendors. The Quilt Community has collectively purchased 2.6Tbps of committed commodity bandwidth from Quilt Approved Providers established from The Quilt’s 11th RFP effort in 2023.

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The Quilt has a successful history of leveraging the collective purchasing power of its membership and authorized member institutions to purchase advanced networking technology and services at a lower cost.  VMware by Broadcom is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. In an effort to leverage its buying power for improved pricing for VMware by Broadcom, our Quilt community issued its first Request for Proposals (RFP) in August of 2015 to select a distribution partner for a Quilt community consortium-based pricing program. The second RFP was issued on January 4th of 2019.

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Internet2 NET+ Cloud Services are evaluated by the R&E community, specific to research and education and designed to meet the unique needs of research and education. View the full list of NET+ offerings including eligibility here.

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