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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Companies looking to help and its partners expand the statewide N.C. Research and Education Network can review requests for proposals that are open through March 15.
The RFPs can be found
MCNC is seeking assistance with engineering, design and environmental work related to the project. More RFPs will be announced in the near future.
The MCNC project recently received $28.2 million in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program (BTOP) and raised $11.7 million in matching funds.
MCNC plans to add some 500 miles of fiber to its network in southeastern and western North Carolina.
The expansion will enable NCREN to reach more than 300,000 families that lack access to high-speed broadband along with 1,500 schools, universities and other institutions plus private businesses.
MCNC plans to add fiber in the following counties:
In the east:
• Nash
• Edgecombe
• Greene
• Pitt
• Craven
• Carteret
• Onslow
• Pender
• New Hanover
In the west:
• Davie
• Alexander
• Catawba
• Iredell
• Burke
• McDowell
• Buncombe
• Haywood
• Jackson
• Transylvania
• Henderson
• Polk
• Cleveland
• Rutherford
• Lincoln
