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Funding Year 2010 (E-rate Year 13) E-rate Information for PEPPM 2008 Bid Awards

As you know, the only way an E-rate applicant can submit a Form 471 without first competitively bidding the E-rate eligible service/item using a Form 470 is when another entity submits the 470 on the applicant’s behalf. Such is the situation with the state's PEPPM contract for internal connections and maintenance (www.peppm.org/pa/default.htm).  The PA Department of Education files Form 470s to align with the official procurement process to competitively bid the PEPPM contracts.

Schools (both public and nonpublic) and libraries that would like to purchase and take receipt of an E-rate eligible item from PEPPM on or after July 1, 2010 may simply file one form, the Form 471. The Form 471 filing window is currently open and thus Form 471 applications may be submitted immediately. The final day that applications can be postmarked or submitted and certified online for Funding Year 2010 is February 11, 2010.  The pertinent E-rate information needed for the Form 471, Block 5 is listed below.

The SLD requires binding contracts for all services or equipment, with the only exceptions being for one-year tariffed or MTM services, or where state master contracts (such as PEPPM) are being used. In the cases where PEPPM is being used, the SLD does not require a separate contract or purchase order to be issued before the 471 is filed because the PEPPM contract IS the contract. Therefore all of the information below is based on the PEPPM contract, not on your local contracts/purchase orders. Purchase orders, however, must be issued in order to actually order the products (on or after July 1, 2010).

PEPPM Procedures for FY 2010 Form 471 Filings
The current PEPPM contract expires December 31, 2010 and the new PEPPM contract will begin January 1, 2011.  Under the SLD State Replacement Contract Procedure, the information below only pertains to the FRN # 1, as described in the Funding Year 2010 PEPPM General Filing Information, that must be used on your Funding Year 2010 Form 471s if you will be purchasing any services or equipment from PEPPM. 

Below is pertinent information relating to the PEPPM contract that should be used to complete the Form 471, Block 5 for this specific product line for FRN # 1 for purchased made from July 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010:

# 12: 470 Application Number for the PEPPM contract is:  351430000628159
# 15: Contract Number:  PEPPM State Contract 2008 
# 17: Allowable Contract Date:  10/15/2007
# 18: Contract Award Date:  11/15/2007
# 19: Service Start Date:  07/01/2010 (always use this number for all Funding Year 2010 Form 471s)
# 20: Contract Expiration Date:  12/31/2010

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