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School board terminates awarded fiber WAN contract after E-Rate denial; new RFP issued
Summary
The board voted to terminate an awarded $1.28 million dedicated fiber WAN contract for the Academy of Environmental Science and the Marine Science Station after the district's E-Rate funding request was denied; staff reissued a corrected RFP and said E-Rate funding typically covers about 90% of the cost.
The Citrus County School Board moved to terminate an awarded Request for Proposal (RFP) for a dedicated fiber wide-area network (WAN) serving the Academy of Environmental Science and the Marine Science Station after the district's E-Rate application was denied.
School technology staff told the board the federal E-Rate application was rejected for clerical and technical verbiage issues in the original submission. Because E-Rate typically funds about 90% of these connections,…
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