Following on the heels of our report of January 22 that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) was in the process of mailing out some 1,400 rejection letters to applicants, last Friday the agency quietly updated its online database with information showing the rejected requests.A total of 667 individual project applications comprise the $6.33 billion figure. These applications equal 69% of the 956 funding requests that applied solely to NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) for a total of $9.896 billion. Given that the agency has awarded 12 such ‘BTOP only ’projects so far, we calculate that NTIA thus continues to evaluate 277 applications requesting the sum of $3.451 billion.
The agency still has its work cut out of it as t needs to pare down a minimum of, $2.051 billion to reach the allocation of $1.400 billion in the current funding Round I. Separately, the agency also rejected an additional 639 applications which requested funds jointly from both BTOP, and from the Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) managed by the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
StimulatingBroadband.com will report on the BIP/BTOP combination rejections over the next day.
Beginning with a public announcement by Vice President Joseph R. Biden held in Dawsonville, GA on December 17, NTIA and (RUS), have to date announced 37 awards totaling $568.166 million.
While neither agency has made a formal public announcement about the details of the rejections, nor about the current number of applications still being processed, StimulatingBroadband.com has conducted a detailed look at the public database updates released by NTIA on January 29.
We will continue to roll out our analysis of the data, with deep dives into industry sector, technology types, project dollar costs, and similar segments of the federal information. Mr. Fred Dyste, the ARRA Program Manager at Digital West Networks, Inc. of San Luis Obispo, CA. Mr. Dyste has conducted the database downloads, cross tabulations, and analysis in cooperation with PrattNetworks LLC of Boston, the corporate parent of this publication. StimulatingBroadband..com
3 comments:
The irony here is that those that are still in the due diligence stage(who logically have stronger applications), but will end up not awarded, will have less time to rework their applications for round 2.
I was at a NTIA and RUS workshop on Monday, and an official suggested that the applicants -- still awaiting to hear about their first round bid -- should start working on their second round applications, just in case. The awards are being announced on a rolling basis, with new announcements made as the reviews are completed.
Luisa Handem
Managing Director
Rural Mobile & Broadband Alliance (RuMBA) USa
Here is some updated analysis of the "Not Funded" letters. I will be adding more on a "rolling basis."
http://dystebizdev.com/ARRA%20Round%201/NF_table.htm
None of my first round clients have decided to start Round 2 yet and none of my prospects for Round 2 have decided to start because they want to see what gets funded and they do not have a high level of confidence the program.
Oy...
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