FCDL Comment:
MR1: In Block 5 of your FCC Form 471, it was indicated the products and services are being provided on a month-to-month arrangement. On 7/31/2013, you provided a contract dated 02/29/2012. Based on this information, USAC has modified the FRN to indicate that these are contractual products and services rather than month-to-month services. <><><><><> MR2: The Contract Expiration Date was changed from MTM to 06/30/2015 to agree with the documentation provided during the review of the FCC Form 471. <><><><><> DR1: Based on the documentation you provided during review, FRN 2431100 will be denied because you did not consider all bids received in response to the FCC Form 470 and/or RFP during your evaluation process. Specifically, you received a bid from Clear Rate which included 3mbps T-1 internet access, which is responsive to your posted FCC Form 470 #600410001051729 but you did not evaluate that bid. You stated that the school did not evaluate the bid because "the client did not request integrated services and did not wish to transition to that technology given existing constraints" but the FCC Form 470 did not state that bids for integrated services would be disqualified. Applicants cannot disqualify all bids in order to stay with their incumbent provider because they do not wish to transition to a new provider. Therefore the applicant failed to consider all of the bids received before selecting a winning bidder as required by FCC orders. Based on the documentation provided during the review, FRN 2431100 will be denied because you did not evaluate all bids even though they were responsive to the request on your FCC Form 470. <><><><><> DR2: A contract for a new service was signed prior to the expiration of the required 28-day waiting period computed from the date of the posting of the FCC Form 470 to USAC's web site which violates program rules.