Goto Section: 54.603 | 54.605 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.604
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 54.604 Consortia, telecommunications services, and existing contracts.
(a) Consortia. (1) Under the Telecommunications Program, an eligible health
care provider may join a consortium with other eligible health care
providers; with schools, libraries, and library consortia eligible under
subpart F of this part; and with public sector (governmental) entities to
order telecommunications services. With one exception, eligible health care
providers participating in consortia with ineligible private sector members
shall not be eligible for supported services under this subpart. A
consortium may include ineligible private sector entities if such consortium
is only receiving services at tariffed rates or at market rates from those
providers who do not file tariffs.
(2) For consortia, universal service support under the Telecommunications
Program shall apply only to the portion of eligible services used by an
eligible health care provider.
(b) Telecommunications Services. Any telecommunications service that is the
subject of a properly completed bona fide request by a rural health care
provider shall be eligible for universal service support, subject to the
limitations described in this paragraph. The length of a supported
telecommunications service may not exceed the distance between the health
care provider and the point farthest from that provider on the
jurisdictional boundary of the largest city in a state as defined in
§ 54.625(a).
(c) Existing contracts. A signed contract for services eligible for
Telecommunications Program support pursuant to this subpart between an
eligible health care provider as defined under § 54.600 and a
telecommunications carrier shall be exempt from the competitive bid
requirements set forth in § 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]
(d) For rural health care providers that take service under or pursuant to a
master contract, as defined in § 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.
(e) 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;
78 FR 13983 , Mar. 1, 2013]
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Goto Section: 54.603 | 54.605
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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