THE COEUR D'ALENE TRIBE
The purpose of this grant is to deploy a fiber to the home broadband system on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in North Idaho and provide jobs both during construction and upon project completion.
The activities that will be performed under this project include:
- Fiber Optics Engineering and Construction: Our project includes approximately 275 route miles of fiber-optic cabling to 3,496 homes, twenty-one community anchor institutions, public safety entities, and critical community organizations. We will need fiber engineering services to design the network to be built, assist with project management, right of ways and permitting, staking the fiber routes, fiber construction bidding, inspection of fiber network as it's being constructed, testing of the fiber optic network, and providing as-builts of final fiber network. We are anticipating at least two construction companies will be selected to build our network, providing approximately 20 construction related jobs during this project.
- Technology Center Expansion: Our plans include an 8,000 sq ft. addition to our existing 7,544 sq. ft Technology Center. This will allow us to equip and expand our Network Operations Center (NOC) to meet our new needs of providing services to over 2,500 potential new customers. The additional building space will also accomodate new positions. We are anticipating at least 10 jobs will develop in the ISP business.
- Prepare for New Triple Play Service Offerings (Voice, Video, and Data): We will need to negotiate a video agreement with a video content provider, as well as purchase the additional equipment, software, and firmware to support the additonal services. This includes purchasing additional switching and routing equipment, voice and video headend equipment, and voice and video software and firmware to offer triple play services to our customers.
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| AWARD OVERVIEW |
| Award Number |
ID1103-A40 |
Funding Agency |
Department of Agriculture |
| Total Award Amount |
$6,142,879 |
Project Location - City |
Plummer |
| Award Date |
06/17/2010 |
Project Location - State |
ID |
| Project Status |
Less Than 50% Completed |
Project Location - Zip |
83851-0408
|
| Jobs Reported |
4.00 |
Congressional District |
01 |
| Project Location - Country |
US |
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Recipient Information
(Loans)
| Recipient Information (Loans) |
|
Recipient Name
|
THE COEUR D'ALENE TRIBE |
| Recipient DUNS Number |
054653340
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| Recipient Address |
850 A ST |
| Recipient City |
PLUMMER |
| Recipient State |
Idaho |
| Recipient Zip |
83851-0000 |
| Recipient Congressional District |
01 |
| Recipient Country |
USA |
Required to Report Top 5
Highly Compensated Officials |
No |
Projects and Jobs Information
| Projects and Jobs Information |
| Project Title |
Coeur d'Alene Tribe Fiber to the Home Project |
| Project Status |
Less Than 50% Completed |
| Final Project Report Submitted |
No |
| Project Activities Description |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers |
| Quarterly Activities/Project Description |
>>>Fiber Optics Engineering and Construction: Engineering is complete for Phases I, II, and III. On March 21st, 2013 we received approval of our construction contract from RUS DC to proceed with Phase I of our project. Our anticipated start date is mid-April. We have put out to bid Phase II of our project. The bid opening will be on April 26, 2013. We have secured Joint Use Agreements with the power companies on the reservation. We received nearly 100% of our fiber in the end of the April, 2012. However, upon final engineering and calculations done for coil footages in pedestals it was determined that we will need to place another order for fiber. We have placed our order for conduit and our project has received nine truck loads for Phase I. The truck loads have been delivered to our staging area we will continue receiving shipments this coming Spring to have our conduit ready for the outside plant contractor for Phases II and III.
>>>Technology Center Expansion: We selected our Architectural Firm. We have finalized the floor plans for our building expansion. We received title clearance from RUS DC and put out for bid with our bid opening on February 27, 2013 we received two bids and called Steven Levine from the DC office to get direction if we should return the bids or open them. Steve gave us the approval to open bids. Bids were opened and we will be awarding the contract by the second week in April, 2013. Pending RUS DC approval and weather permitting, we plan on starting building construction within the month.
>>>Prepare for New Triple Play Service Offerings (Voice, Video, and Data): Contacted and met with video content providers, video equipment providers, and video middleware providers. Worked on video services business model. We have selected the provider and are currently working on completing the contract for approval by RUS. We have also met with several companies for billing software demonstrations.
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| Jobs Created |
4.00 |
| Description of Jobs Created |
One job created as an ISP Accountant Consultant. One job created as Grants Compliance Administrator. One Project Engineer and Four Field Engineers. One Architect. |
Purchaser Information
(Loans)
| Purchaser Information |
| Contracting Office ID |
Not Reported |
| Contracting Office Name |
Not Available |
| Contracting Office Region |
Not Available |
| TAS Major Program |
12-4146 |
| Award Information |
| Award Date |
06/17/2010 |
| Award Number |
ID1103-A40 |
| Order Number |
|
| Award Type |
Loans |
| Funding Agency ID |
12 |
| Funding Agency Name |
Department of Agriculture |
| Funding Office Name |
Not Available |
| Awarding Agency ID |
12 |
| Awarding Agency Name |
Department of Agriculture |
| Amount of Award |
$6,142,879 |
| Funds Invoiced/Received |
$786,137 |
| Expenditure Amount |
$762,291 |
| Infrastructure Expenditure Amount |
$0 |
| Infrastructure Purpose and Rationale |
The purpose of this grant is to deploy a fiber to the home broadband system on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in North Idaho and provide jobs both during construction and upon project completion. We will be able to provide up to 10 new jobs in the ISP business and approximately 20 construction related jobs in the first few years of the project Our fiber optic network will pass 3,496 homes and twenty-one community anchor institutions, public safety entities, and critical community organizations. |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Name |
Valerie Fast Horse |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Email |
vjfasthorse@cdatribe-nsn.gov |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Phone |
2086865059 |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Address |
850 A Street |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact City |
Plummer |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact State |
ID |
| Infrastructure Point of Contact Zip |
83851-0408 |
Product or Service Information
(Loans)
| Product or Service Information |
| Primary Activity Code |
517110 |
| Activity Description |
Wired Telecommunications Carriers |
| Sub-Awards Information |
| Sub-awards to Organizations |
0 |
| Sub-award Amounts to Organizations |
$0 |
| 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 |
0 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors greater than $25,000/award |
$0 |
| Number of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
12 |
| Total Amount of payments to vendors less than $25,000/award |
$21,681 |
| Location Information |
| Latitude, Longitude |
47º 18' 5",
-116º 54' 41" |
| Congressional District |
01 |
| Address 1 |
850 A Street |
| Address 2 |
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| City |
Plummer |
| County |
Benewah |
| State |
ID |
| Zip |
83851-0408 |
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