Reminder: The FY2016 E-Rate Form 471 filing window closes at 11:59 PM EDT on April 29, 2016.
This applies to anyone requesting E-Rate funding for products or services not arranged by Networkmaine.
If you filed a new Form 470 this year:
- you must wait 28 days before choosing a vendor or service provider
- you cannot file the Form 471 before the Allowable Vendor
Selection/Contract Date identified in your Form 470 Receipt Notification
Letter available in your EPC News feed
- the Contract Award
Date that you report must be on or after the Allowable Vendor
Selection/Contract Date but before you certify the Form 471
If
you did not need to file a new Form 470 this year due to an existing
multi-year contract from a prior year's Form 470, you can certify your
Form 471 at any time before the window closes.
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Anne Perloff
Maine State E-Rate Coordinator for Schools
Networkmaine ... a unit of the University of Maine System
Web: www.networkmaine.net/erate/
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 207-561-3584
Fax: 207-561-3531
Mail:
Networkmaine
5752 Neville Hall Rm 255
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469