Lower Yukon School District C1 Internet FY2026

No phone calls or texts. For documentation purposes all communication is required to be via email.
Interested bidders must review the RFP document attached here for the full scope of the project and bid submission guidelines and timelines. Inquiries asking the applicant to consider purchasing other services or components that are not included on the Form 470 will not be considered legitimate inquiries or proposals. Questions that seek information readily available on the Form 470 or RFP will not be answered.
Spam, robotic, generic and encyclopedic responses will not be considered legitimate bid inquiries or proposals and will be disqualified.
Discounted Billing: Bidders must be willing to provide E-Rate discounted billing (form 474/SPI invoicing) if requested by the applicant.
Proposals should separately itemize the cost of E-rate eligible and ineligible services and indicate whether the service includes basic firewall service and/or non-recurring costs or special construction fees. Installation and any taxes and additional charges must be clearly identified in your bid response. If bidding a non-fiber solution, please indicate if it's copper, microwave, satellite, etc.
Flexibility for an increase in bandwidth and adding new sites throughout the duration of the contract due to growth and changing district needs is desired. In the event of a price decrease for service at the time of contract addendum, the district would request the decrease be passed onto them.
All bandwidths listed are estimates of needs.
The resulting contract should include increases in levels of service and relevant pricing options in the event the applicant wishes to increase during the term of the agreement.
***Due to limitations of the form drop down options, we are clarifying here the minimum range is 40 Mbps not 25 Mbps but the menu does not offer that option, so the closest range was selected.
Requested services (3 line items): - Category 1 — Data Transmission And/Or Internet Access — Internet Access And Data Transmission Service
State/local procurement requirements: Please include SPIN in bid. No phone calls or texts. Bidders must be willing to provide E-Rate discounted billing (form 474/SPI invoicing) if requested by the applicant.
RFP: Interested bidders must review the RFP document attached here for the full scope of the project and bid submission guidelines and timelines. Applicant reserves the right to reject late submitted bids.
Bid evaluations may include points for vendors with a local presence or office within 150 miles. Spam, robotic, encyclopedic and generic bid responses will not be considered legitimate bid inquiries or proposals and will be disqualified.
Inquiries asking the applicant to consider purchasing other services that are not included on the Form 470 will not be considered legitimate inquiries or proposals. Questions that seek information readily available on the Form 470 will not be answered.
For contract services, the successful bidder(s) must be willing to sign and date contracts after the Allowable Contract Date of this Form 470 and prior to the submission of the Form 471 for service to commence on July 1, 2026 for Category 1 services or April 1, 2026 for Category 2 components, signed as soon as possible after the winning bid is chosen. Contracts must include an e-rate contingency clause if requested by the applicant. All requests are contingent upon funding by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Services Administrative Company (USAC) unless otherwise agreed upon by applicant. Will consider multi-year contracts and/or contracts with voluntary extensions and/or amendments. Proposals should separately itemize the cost of E-rate eligible and ineligible services.
Bidder acknowledges their equipment and services are compliant with FCC's recent Order (FCC 19-121) prohibiting the sale, provision, maintenance, modification, or other support of equipment or services provided or manufactured by Huawei, ZTE or any other "covered company" deemed a national security threat. Vender must be an authorized E-rate partner of the manufacturer or will agree that no grey market products will be accepted as part of the procurement.
Any pricing proposed must comply with the FCC Lowest Corresponding Price Rule as required by the Universal Service First Report and Order, and restated in the FCC E-Rate Modernization Report and Order, adopted July 11, 2014.
The FCC Lowest Corresponding Price rule prohibits an E-rate services offeror from offering or charging E-rate applicants a price higher than the lowest price the offeror charges to non-residential customers who are similarly situated to a particular school, library, rural health care provider or consortium that purchase directly from the offeror.
Reference documents (Form 470 / RFP): https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260004488/145592/20601139-USAC_FCC_FORM_470_APPLICATION_260004488_CERTIFIED.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260004488/145592/20601126-Addendum%20Q%20and%20A%2011.11.2025.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260004488/145592/20563830-IMPORTANT%20DATES%20C1%20Internet.pdf, https://publicdata.usac.org/EPC/Prd/Form470/260004488/145592/20563827-FY2026%20RFP%20Category%201%20Internet.pdf