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DR1:Applicants are required to conduct a fair and open competitive bid process. Applicants are also required to post the FCC Form 470 and any requests for proposals (or other bidding documentation) in the E-rate Productivity Center and wait at least 28 days prior to selecting the winning bid. If the applicant makes cardinal changes to the FCC Form 470 or to other bidding documents, the applicant must post the updates in E-rate Productivity Center and wait an additional 28 days prior to selecting the winning bid. During the review, it was determined that the applicant made cardinal changes to the RFP. Specifically, it was determined that the applicant posted Addendum 3 on 1/6/2017 with the following cardinal changes; addition of maps, addition of bandwidth diagram, change in bandwidth , addition of topology map, and site maps provided. As the applicant did not wait 28 days after making cardinal changes to the RFP, this FRN is denied.||MR1:Documentation provided indicates that your Funding Request is for Self Provisioned Fiber. Do not submit invoices until the fiber is lit. Please provide documentation that it is lit when submitting your invoice.||MR2:Per FCC Order 14-189, to prevent warehousing of excess fiber capacity, applicants may only receive funding for fiber special construction charges if it is lit within the same funding year. If excess strands are being installed that will not be lit during the current FY and will remain dormant until lit for the applicant’s exclusive future use; the applicant must provide a cost allocation for the cost of the unlit strands. The applicant provided the following cost allocation calculation $554.80. Therefore, this FRN has been modified from $728,582.00 Pre-discounted to $728,027.20, to account for the fiber strands that will not be lit during this FY.. |