Check and score your E-rate bids
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1. Your Form 470
Type the Form 470 number to read its public dates from USAC's open data, or enter them yourself.
Heads the memo and the reports. With a Consultant license the firm named at checkout fills in.
A new RFP upload or amendment restarts the 28 days.
2. Bids and evaluation matrix
One row per bid: service, bidder, eligible price and a column per scored factor (0–10). Our template or your own columns.
.xlsx or .csv
One row per bid, a few minutes for 3 to 8 bids. The score columns follow the factors of your matrix below.
Columns
Evaluation matrix
| Factor (other factors match a column of the same name) | Type | Weight | Round |
|---|
3. Schools and libraries (optional)
For the discount and the Category Two budget: name, BEN, students, NSLP-eligible students or CEP percentage, urban or rural (and library square feet). Or type the discount you already know.
4. Results
Fix before you sign
Price factor
Discount and C2 budget
Funding requests (selected bids)
Scored bids
Downloads
License
The check is free. The files for your own bids need a license: Single applicant $990, Multi-applicant $1,990 (up to 10), Consultant $3,900 (unlimited), for 12 months. Founding offer: $594, $1,194 or $2,340 with FOUNDING40 until 30 Nov, applied automatically at checkout.
Have a license key?
Keep a copy of your key: paste it on any computer your team uses. Lost it? Reply to your Paddle receipt and we resend it.