BEAD Prequalification (Providers)

Applicants participating in the BEAD Subgrantee Selection Process were required to submit prequalification materials by July 7. Prequalification was an important step in the BEAD application process detailed in NCDIT’s Initial Proposal Volume 2, serving as the first phase in the selection of subgrantees.

The primary objective of this process was to collect the required information for assessing eleven specific qualifications including Financial Capability, Managerial Capability, Technical Capability, Compliance with Applicable Laws, Operational Capability, Ownership Information, Public Funding Information, Fair Labor Practices and Highly Skilled Workforce, Environmental and National Historical Preservation, Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) and Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Risk Management Compliance. The prequalification window launched on June 20 was updated with requirements of the BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice and extended until 11:59 p.m. on July 7 for any remaining internet service providers that wished to participate in the BEAD subgrantee selection process. The prequalification window is now closed.    
 

Prequalified Providers

The following broadband providers successfully completed the prequalification requirements to participate in North Carolina’s BEAD Subgrantee Selection for last-mile broadband deployment projects. These companies are the prequalified applicants for this program. Based on the program's parameters, no other broadband providers are eligible to participate in North Carolina’s BEAD Subgrantee Selection process.

  • Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services, LLC
  • ATMC (FOCUS Broadband)
  • Balsam West
  • Bellsouth Telecommunication, LLC (AT&T)
  • Cherokee Cablevision
  • Citizen's Telephone Company (Comporium Communications)
  • CND Acquisition Corporation (The Cable Company)
  • Comcast Cable Communication Management
  • Comporium, Inc.
  • Connect Holding II, LLC (Brightpeed)
  • e-Polk, Inc (PANGAEA Internet)
  • ERC Broadband
  • Foothills Broadband, LLC
  • Frontier Communications of the Carolinas, LLC
  • HarvestBeam, Inc.
  • IBT Group USA
  • LREMC Technologies (RIVR Tech)
  • Mediacom, LLC
  • NfinityLink Communications, Inc.
  • Open Fiber (RIPPLE)
  • Roanoke Connect (FYBE)
  • Skyrunner
  • Space Exploration Technologies Corp
  • Spectrum Southeast, LLC (Charter Communications)
  • Star TMC
  • StarVision
  • Surry TMC (Surry Communications)
  • Talkie Communications, Inc. (Talkie)
  • Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation (RiverStreet Networks)
  • Windstream North Carolina, LLC
  • Yadkin Valley TMC (Zirrus)
  • Zito West Holding, LLC (ZitoMedia)
     

BEAD Program Prequalification Guidance

The guidance helped potential applicants provide the required responses and prequalification documentation Participation in the prequalification process is required for potential applicants to participate in North Carolina’s BEAD subgrantee selection process. 

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