2026 Form 470 Grant Wood Area Education Agency Wide Area Network Service

Grant Wood Area Education Agency is seeking bids for leased lit fiber and/or transport circuits only from the hub of the districts network at 4401 6th Street SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 to the following location: Grant Wood Area Education Agency-Southern Facility, 2852 Coral Court, Coralville, IA 52241 We are seeking bids at the following capacities: Minimum of 500 Mbps and maximum of 1 Gbps. Bids should be at 100 MBPS intervals. Grant Wood AEA also requests bid options for one-year, two-year, three-year, and five-year contracts.
Interested vendors should also provide the following information in their bids: a) Indicate the type of connectivity for each school (e.g. fiber, coaxial, microwave, etc) b) Indicate the actual dollar amount of any applicable taxes and fees (not just a statement that taxes and fees are separate) c) Bidders must be willing to provide E-Rate discounted billing and to include this statement in the proposal d) District reserves the right to cancel this request for bids and to reject all related proposals ROBO-BIDS AND BIDS SENT AS SPAM WITHOUT REGARD TO PRODUCTS AND SERVICES LISTED ON THE FORM 470 AND/OR THE RFP WILL BE DISQUALIFIED AND WILL NOT BE EVALUATED. Technical Contact All bidders may contact the technical contact (Jason Marshall - contact@example.gov) with any questions regarding this request. All questions for the technical contact must be submitted by March 4, 2026.
Submission Deadline Deadline for vendor proposals is 9:00 am Central time, 29 days after the date this Form 470 is posted. We reserve the right to reject late-submitted proposals. Proposals must be e-mailed to Jason Marshall (contact@example.gov)
Requested services (1 line item): - Category 1 — Data Transmission And/Or Internet Access — Internet Access And Data Transmission Service
State/local procurement requirements: By submitting a bid on the requested services herein, the vendor certifies: its proposed prices are consistent with the FCCs Lowest Corresponding Price (LCP) requirements and that its equipment and services are compliant with the FCCs recent Order (FCC 19-121) prohibiting the sale, provision, maintenance, modification, or other support of equipment or services provided or manufactured by Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hangzhou, Dahua, Pacific Network Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary ComNet (USA) LLC and China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited or any other covered company deemed a national security threat.
Reference documents (Form 470 / RFP): https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260020095/132602/21120072-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260020095_CERTIFIED.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260020095/132602/21119965-2026%20GWAEA%20WAN%20RFP.pdf