FCC 54.604 Revised as of October 1, 2007
Goto Year:2006 |
2008
Sec. 54.604 Existing contracts.
(a) Existing contracts . A signed contract for services eligible for support
pursuant to this subpart between an eligible health care provider as defined
under Sec. 54.601 and a telecommunications carrier shall be exempt from the
competitive bid requirements set forth in Sec. 54.603(a) as follows:
(1) A contract signed on or before July 10, 1997 is exempt from the
competitive bid requirement for the life of the contract.
(2) [Reserved]
(b) For rural health care providers that take service under or pursuant to a
master contract, as defined in Sec. 54.500(f), the date of execution of that
master contract represents the applicable date for purposes of determining
whether and to what extent the rural health care provider is exempt from the
competitive bid requirements.
(c) The competitive bid system will be deemed to be operational when the
Administrator is ready to accept and post FCC Form 465 from rural health
care providers on a website and that website is available for use by
telecommunications carriers.
[ 63 FR 2131 , Jan. 13, 1998; 63 FR 33586 , June 19, 1998, as amended at 63 FR 70572 , Dec. 21, 1998; 64 FR 22810 , Apr. 28, 1999; 71 FR 65750 , Nov. 9, 2006]
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