MCNC
MCNC will build a sustainable broadband network infrastructure connecting urban central North Carolina (NC) with underserved rural southeastern and western NC. The project is supported by an $11.76M cash and in-kind match. The design, construction, and operation of the network is expected to create over 230 jobs. MCNC's strategy is to leverage available capacity by linking it with new construction. The proposed fiber build will serve the existing community anchor institutions on the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) (schools, community colleges, other institutions of higher education, and community support organizations) with more robust and scalable connectivity. The build will also create a higher capacity public connectivity for community anchor institutions that are not part of NCREN (e.g., libraries, medical, and public health providers). Finally, the build will enable private service providers (existing and new) to reach underserved areas of the state. The proposed fiber build addresses the public/private access to high speed broadband needs of major portions of rural NC. There are twelve counties along the build for which the entire county is classified as underserved. In addition there are at least twelve other counties traversed by the build that contain unserved census blocks. The network will have both public and private users. MCNC's portion of the network will connect community anchor institutions in rural NC to the existing NCREN. The second portion of the network will be leased to private-sector high speed broadband access operators and wholesalers.
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| AWARD OVERVIEW |
| Award Number |
NT10BIX5570011 |
Funding Agency |
Department of Commerce |
| Total Award Amount |
$28,225,518 |
Project Location - City |
Research Triangle Park |
| Award Date |
01/15/2010 |
Project Location - State |
NC |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
Project Location - Zip |
27709-2889
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| Jobs Reported |
5.12 |
Congressional District |
04 |
| Project Location - Country |
US |
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Recipient Information
(Grants)
| Recipient Information (Grants) |
|
Recipient Name
|
MCNC |
| Recipient DUNS Number |
018946590
|
| Recipient Address |
3021 CORNWALLIS RD |
| Recipient City |
RTP |
| Recipient State |
North Carolina |
| Recipient Zip |
27709-0000 |
| Recipient Congressional District |
04 |
| Recipient Country |
USA |
Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Projects and Jobs Information
| Projects and Jobs Information |
| Project Title |
Building a Sustainable Middle-Mile Network for Underserved Rural NC |
| Project Status |
More than 50% Completed |
| Final Project Report Submitted |
No |
| Project Activities Description |
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction |
| Quarterly Activities/Project Description |
MCNC engineered 100G equipment upgrades approved by NTIA at the end of the last quarter for Research 1 institutions associated with the project. At the end of the quarter orders were being prepared. MCNC additionally provided more detail on proposed new telecommunication facilities to be deployed and was awaiting formal approval to proceed on environmentally related activities for those at the end of the quarter. |
| Jobs Created |
5.12 |
| Description of Jobs Created |
Jobs associated with MCNC's current quarter performance towards fulfilling the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant decreased considerably due to the the wrapping up of construction efforts while seeing slight increases for the design and engineering work for the extended scope of work for 100G upgrades and additional telecommunication facilities. The total of 5.12 Federally funded full time equivalents (FTEs) includes Laborers, Equipment Operators, and Engineering related. No FTEs of these Federally funded FTEs were new positions and 5.12 were retained positions. The majority of these FTEs represents short term positions supporting the needs of the construction, inspection, and engineering requirements of the MCNC award. The decrease in FTEs from the previous quarter is due to the wrapping up of the construction work on the additional build. |
Purchaser Information
(Grants)
| Purchaser Information |
| Contracting Office ID |
Not Reported |
| Contracting Office Name |
Not Available |
| Contracting Office Region |
Not Available |
| TAS Major Program |
13-0554 |
| Award Information |
| Award Date |
01/15/2010 |
| Award Number |
NT10BIX5570011 |
| Order Number |
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| Award Type |
Grants |
| Funding Agency ID |
13 |
| Funding Agency Name |
Department of Commerce |
| Funding Office Name |
Not Available |
| Awarding Agency ID |
13 |
| Awarding Agency Name |
Department of Commerce |
| Amount of Award |
$28,225,518 |
| Funds Invoiced/Received |
$27,778,490 |
| Expenditure Amount |
$27,906,863 |
| Infrastructure Expenditure Amount |
$27,906,863 |
| Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale |
This grant for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Stimulus Funds addresses statutory goals by improving affordability and access for education, health care, community institutions, and last-mile providers. It directly serves the BTOP statutory purposes of providing enhanced broadband connectivity to underserved areas and strategic community institutions, and stimulating demand for broadband, economic growth, and job creation. Through community anchor institutions on the backbone, 2M students in K-20 education are already served by NCREN. In addition, over 5.2M citizens who make over 15 million annual doctor visits, and over 5M estimated library visitors may be served. This route has the potential to be the high speed broadband access solution for 335,589 underserved households The proposed build will enable MCNC to provide equitable NCREN service to all education-sector community anchor institutions in the state. The state librarian and the NC Health Information Technology Strategic Planning Task Force and representatives of nonprofit electrical co-ops in the area of proposed build provided commitments to explore connecting rural libraries, nonprofit hospitals, and county-operated free health-care clinics in or adjacent to underserved areas adds significantly to the value of the proposed high spreed broadband network.
Enhanced broadband capacity will improve the access to education, health care, and human services in these communities, and will assist in the deployment of advanced utility monitoring by nonprofit electrical co-ops in these regions.
MCNC and its partners will offer wholesale access to network components and services such as wavelength or fibers at reasonable rates and terms. This wholesale access will lower last-mile prices and stimulate demand. eNC, NC's broadband authority, is proposing to trial a lifeline link-up for broadband. While the NC Learning with Technology Initiative has given 25,000 high school students access to laptops, recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of these students do not have broadband service. In underserved rural areas of the state, however, community anchor institutions are connected to NCREN by short-term leases for lit capacity (circuits). The result has been that the service received by community anchor institutions in rural North Carolina compares unfavorably to the service received by
institutions in urban areas in terms of price, capacity, and confidence over the long term. The proposed network build will enable MCNC to provide equitable NCREN service to all education-sector community anchor institutions in the state.
Increasing competition and lowering prices for broadband service in the newly served
areas will increase access to broadband service for students in their homes.
This high speed broadand network build will increase the existing bandwidth by 10 to 20 times in underserved areas of rural western and southeastern North Carolina. Available to free clinics, county health
agencies, and nonprofit hospitals, the enhanced bandwidth will enable a wider range of healthcare
information exchange and tele-health technologies.
The best medical practioners across several disciplines (cancer, diabetes, pulmonary,
etc.) will scale their knowledge to reach patients all across the state; the public health data and research housed within institutions of the University of NC system will be able to be used for trending and predicting the health of North Carolinians in the regions served by this build. The real-time access to this information has been impinged by bandwidth constraints and has restricted the ability of the doctors to scale their knowledge through increased interaction and collaboration.
This high speed broadband access will allow rural education institutions to meet the future need for e-learning courses and more robust and engaging content. |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Name |
Patricia Moody |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Email |
pmoody@mcnc.org |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Phone |
(919) 248-1820 |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Address |
3021 Cornwallis Road |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact City |
Research Triangle Park |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact State |
NC |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Zip |
27709-2889 |
Product or Service Information
(Grants)
| Product or Service Information |
| Primary Activity Code |
237130 |
| Activity Description |
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction |
| Sub-Awards Information |
| Sub-awards to Organizations |
1 |
| Sub-award Amounts to Organizations |
$300,000 |
| Sub-Awards to Individuals |
0 |
| Sub-Award Amounts to Individuals |
$0 |
| Number of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
0 |
| Amount of Sub-awards less than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors greater than $25,000 |
21 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors greater than $25,000/award |
$27,769,446 |
| Number of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
285 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
$400,042 |
Sub-award 16101.FRC - Frc LLC
| Sub-Award Amount |
$300,000 |
| Sub-Award Date |
02/03/2011 |
| Sub-Awards Disbursed |
$47,431.44 |
| Project Location - City |
Columbia |
| Project Location - State |
SC |
| Project Location - Zip Code |
29201-3732 |
| Project Location - Congressional District |
06 |
| Sub-Recipient DUNS Number |
789346348
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| Sub-Recipient Address |
1005 Central Rd |
| Sub-Recipient City |
Kingstree |
| Sub-Recipient State |
South Carolina |
| Sub-Recipient Zip Code |
29556 |
| Sub-Recipient Congressional District |
06 |
Required To Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Spalj Construction Company - Award Number NT10BIX5570011 - Spalj Construction Company
| Award Number |
NT10BIX5570011 |
| Sub-Award Number |
N/A |
| Vendor DUNS Number |
022753396 |
| Vendor HQ Zip Code + 4 |
56444 |
| Vendor Name |
Spalj Construction Company |
| Product and Service Description |
Construction |
| Payment Amount |
$7,033,546 |
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| Location Information |
| Latitude, Longitude |
35º 55' 1",
-78º 52' 12" |
| Congressional District |
04 |
| Address 1 |
3021 Cornwallis Road |
| Address 2 |
PO Box 12889 |
| City |
Research Triangle Park |
| County |
Durham |
| State |
NC |
| Zip |
27709-2889 |
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