Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (VT-BEAD) Program is now accepting proposals from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement Vermont’s $239 million, federally funded program to deploy broadband internet service throughout the state.
The VT-BEAD Full Proposal portal will close at 11:55pm on April 16, 2025. Only those ISPs that submitted a VT-BEAD Pre-proposal are eligible to submit Full Proposals, with the following exceptions:
- The Full Proposal is a Priority Broadband Project for a Final Project Area that received no Priority Broadband Project Pre-proposals.
- The Full Proposal is a Priority Broadband Project for a Final Project Area that did receive at least one Priority Broadband Project Pre-proposal, but none of the Prospective Subrecipients that filed Priority Broadband Project Pre-proposals meet the necessary gating criteria upon review of their Full Proposals.
- The Full Proposal is not a Priority Broadband Project and is for a Final Project Area that did not receive any Pre-proposals.
- The Full Proposal is not a Priority Broadband Project and is for a Final Project Area that did receive at least one Pre-proposal, but none of the Prospective Subrecipients that filed Pre-proposals meet the necessary gating criteria upon filing of their Full Proposals.
- A new Final Project Area has been created based on input received during the Pre-proposal phase or during final proposal negotiations. NOTE: Per the Final Project Area data on the VCBB’s ArcGIS Hub, project areas 51-56 meet this criterion.
Prospective Subrecipients who did not submit a Pre-proposal should visit VCBB’s website to understand how to determine whether they can apply.
The VCBB is aware that the BEAD program is under federal review and will keep Prospective Subrecipients apprised of any changes that will affect the Full Proposal process, including changes to scoring. Until any notice from the NTIA, the VCBB will continue to implement the VT-BEAD program in accordance with Vermont’s Initial Proposal.
Montpelier, Vermont — VCBB website
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