The Henrico County School District’s application for review...
The Henrico County School District’s application for review of its denial for E-rate funding was denied by the FCC, in an order (http://bit.ly/1pya507) released Thursday. The Wireline Bureau had upheld the Universal Service Administrative Company’s denial of the Richmond, Virginia-area…
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school district’s funding requests for funding year 2008, said the order, which was adopted Wednesday. The bureau said Henrico violated the commission’s competitive bidding rules by failing to use price as the primary factor in selecting vendors for telecommunications and high-speed Internet access, the order said. Commissioner Ajit Pail concurred with the decision but criticized the bidding process. The bidding rule doesn’t require the lowest-priced bid to be selected, Pai said in a statement. It requires only that cost must be given “more weight” than any other factor -- “so if an applicant considers ten factors, price could be weighted as little as 11 percent,” said Pai, who called the rule “nothing more than a paperwork exercise” that “elevates form over substance."