Acceso y despliegue equitativos de la banda ancha (BEAD)

KDC Grant Portal & BEAD Pre-Registration User Guide

Se recomienda a los inscritos que utilicen esta guía para preinscribirse a través del portal.

Estos formularios deben ser utilizados por los solicitantes de registro para los archivos requeridos que se cargarán como parte del registro. Consulte la Guía para obtener instrucciones sobre cómo rellenar y renombrar estos archivos.

Registration curing requests will come from a Salesforce automated email address of “KDC SF NoReply <[email protected]>”.   Emails will go to the Lead Project and Lead Technical Project contacts.  If you have a question regarding your curing request, do not reply to that email.  Email questions to the [email protected]v inbox and a team member will respond to you.  

Formularios obligatorios

• Declaración de no conflicto de intereses - Actualizado el 20.8.24
• Declaración de no colusión - Actualizado el 20.8.24
• Updated Attestation from Lead Organization
• Updated Attestations from Consortium Members
• CAI Participation List – Template

Pre-Registration Process

To maximize time for eligible applicants to participate in the BEAD subgrant selection process, KOBD will accept submitted registrations as sufficient to allow applicants to access the BEAD technical application portal. Please note, this does NOT suggest your registration has been accepted as being satisfactory. All applicants must have a successful registration to allow for their submitted technical application to be reviewed by KOBD. Unsuccessful registrations will result in it being returned for curing and technical applications submitted by the applicant cannot be reviewed until all registration curing has been satisfied.

Salesforce Portal Multiple Users

Our Salesforce portal is limited to one unique user working within the Salesforce application. However, our Salesforce team has suggested the following workaround to allow multiple people to collaborate.

To collaborate on your BEAD registration and/or technical application simultaneously, you must be willing to share your login credentials for Salesforce with other people. Once you’ve shared your login information with one or more people, all of you may begin working on separate sections of the same application.

PLEASE NOTE: This workaround will not work if two or more people are attempting to work in the same section of the application. The solution only works if each contributor is working in different sections. Each person working on their specific section must save their progress to ensure that Salesforce registers the entries into the portal. To confirm that the progress of others is within the system, please refresh the page after you save your work (if that does not work, logging out and logging back in should reflect all the latest saved progress).

Project Applications

• BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round Technical Application User Guide (updated 7/29/2025)
• BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round File Upload Crosswalk (added 7/24/2025)
• BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round Tips for Entering Locations (added 7/25/2025)
• BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round Location List Template
• BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round Data Dictionary
• BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round Rúbrica de puntuación

Formularios obligatorios

• Updated Bead: Benefit of the Bargain Project Application Attestation from Lead Organization
• Updated Bead: Benefit of the Bargain Project Application Attestation from Member

Salesforce Portal Multiple Users

Our Salesforce portal is limited to one unique user working within the Salesforce application. However, our Salesforce team has suggested the following workaround to allow multiple people to collaborate.

To collaborate on your BEAD registration and/or technical application simultaneously, you must be willing to share your login credentials for Salesforce with other people. Once you’ve shared your login information with one or more people, all of you may begin working on separate sections of the same application.

PLEASE NOTE: This workaround will not work if two or more people are attempting to work in the same section of the application. The solution only works if each contributor is working in different sections. Each person working on their specific section must save their progress to ensure that Salesforce registers the entries into the portal. To confirm that the progress of others is within the system, please refresh the page after you save your work (if that does not work, logging out and logging back in should reflect all the latest saved progress).

KOBD has updated the approved NTIA bead eligible location list with the addition of a new eligibility field. This field will support applications as they are still required to account for the full location list approved by NTIA. This will address the changes in status over time and allow applicants to apply for locations in need of eligible service.

BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round Tips for Entering Locations (added 7/25/2025)

Location status: 0=unserved/eligible, 1=underserved/eligible, 2=served/funded/ineligible.  
*Please note files with an *asterisk* will not open in Excel completely. Will require other software.

Applicants must account for ALL NTIA approved eligible locations (the 0s and 1s in the list) even if it is shown as “ineligible” in the KOBD eligibility field. There will be required fields within the technical application and within the location .csv file where locations flagged as newly ineligible will be recorded. BEAD dollars should not be requested for these newly ineligible locations.

• *All_Kansas_BSLs_Final_July_25.csv: This file is similar to the previous BSL file, (ie All BSLs regardless of classification), but with additional fields to be used by applicants such as PFA and “KOBD_FINAL_ELIGIBILITY”, which includes a new eligibility status based on the NTIA reason codes and current data to be used in the final proposal.  While all 0s and 1s on the list must be accounted for in the application, we are asking applicants to only ask for BEAD dollars for the locations on this list with the “Eligible” status.
• Eligible_Kansas_BSLs_Final_July_25.xlsx: This file is the same as the file above except that it omits the (2) classification. This is the BEAD-Eligible location list.
• Eligible_Kansas_BSLs_Final_July_25_PIVOT.xlsx: This file is the same as the above file, but it has a few additional tools. It includes a separate tab with a Pivot Table that lists all 403 PFAs as well as a count of [BEAD-Eligible] BSLs. You can expand the PFA there, to show a breakdown of those BSLs, showing the BSLs that are “still” eligible, and those that are “Now Ineligible”.
• Final_approved_Kansas_cai_July_25.csv: This is a newly updated CAI file that has been modified slightly to remove records that do not fit the current IIJA CAI definition.
• Red Freestate Middle Mile: “Provider Planning” current available .kmz maps available for download
• Kansas_PFAs_Final_09_26_24: (KMZ) Map files – based off of census blocks (opens in Google Earth)
• Kansas_PFAs_Final_09_26_24 (GIS) Map files – based off of census blocks (GIS)
• Final_NTIA_approved_Kansas_locations_July_25.csv: This is a list of ALL Kansas BSLs (served(2), underserved(1), unserved(0)). 

Please note the Project Funding Areas did not change.  The current broadband fabric was used to notate locations that no longer exist. KOBD continues to use all available and allowable information to support applicants. 

The first round of BEAD pre-registration opened on May 13, 2024 and closed on December 20, 2024. The list reflected below indicates all applicants that have been reviewed and approved.  Following a thorough review by the KOBD team, all applicants received notifications on their pre-qualification status, indicating whether their submission was approved, returned for curing, or disqualified. The following organizations successfully registered to participate in the BEAD program.

If you are on the list of BEAD Pre-Registered Applicants, you do not need to complete the BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Pre-Registration process. Those who submitted, but did not complete registration before the June 6, 2025, Policy Notice may require curing. 

• 3JL Holdings, LLC
• *Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services LLC
• AMG Technology Investment Group, LLC
• Butler Rural Electric Cooperative Assn Inc.
• Ciudad de Coffeyville
• Comcast Cable
• Connect Holding II LLC d/b/a Brightspeed
• Cox Communications Kansas, LLC
• Fiber Communications of Columbus, LLC
• Giant Communications, Inc.
• Banda ancha de Haviland
• *IBT GROUP USA,LLC
• IdeaTek
• ITC Broadband Operating, LLC
• Kanokla
• *LaHarpe Communications, Inc.
• Mercury Wireless
• *Midcontinent Communication
• Nación Prairie Band Potawatomi
• Pioneer Telephone Association, Inc.
• Pinnacle Broadband, LLC
• Resound Networks
• Southern Kansas Telephone
• *Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
• S&T Communications LLC
• Twin Valley Communications, Inc.
• Twin Valley Telephone, Inc.
• Wave Wireless, LLC
• Wisper ISP LLC

* Indicates approved registration post June 6, 2025.

Preguntas frecuentes

• BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain FAQ Document (updated 8/13/2025)

Guidance

• Revised BEAD Pre-Registration User Guide
• Technical Application User Guide (updated 7/29/2025)
• Tips for Entering Locations (added 7/25/2025)
• File Upload Crosswalk (added 7/24/25)
• Revised Registration Playbook – Tips for Success
• In Kind Match Guidance (Updated 11/27/2024)
• BEAD In-Kind Match Primer (12/16/2024)
• PFA Primer Guide to 80/20 Rule
• Locations List Data Dictionary (Updated 7/24/2025)
• Rúbrica de puntuación
• “No – BEAD” Location Policy Guide (Updated 3/3/2025)

Quiet Period

In accordance with NTIA’s BEAD NOFO requirements, KOBD has updated internal communication policies to establish a ‘Quiet Period’ until the end of KOBD’s subgrantee selection process to comply with the BEAD NOFO.

Entities eligible to apply for BEAD such as internet service providers, municipalities, etc. with questions about BEAD programmatically including but not limited to verbal or electronic communications such as text, voice calls, emails, etc. will not be responded to unless they are emailed directly to [email protected] or brought up during a public BEAD office hour hosted by KOBD.

When emailing [email protected], eligible entities can expect a response to appear on KOBD’s website, www.kansascommerce.gov/bead as a new FAQ response under Recursos if one does not already exist.

Questions posed during a public BEAD office hour hosted by KOBD can be directly responded to by KOBD staff during the office hour and responses will be posted on KOBD’s website as a new FAQ response if one does not already exist. No communications will be sent out with a direct response to a question either from KOBD staff or the [email protected] email address.

Please refer to the BEAD NOFO (page 35):

7. Subgrantee Selection Process

a. General Principles Governing Subgrantee Selection

i. Protecting the Integrity of the Selection Process

In establishing a fair, open, equitable, and competitive selection process, each Eligible Entity must ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to protect the integrity of the competition, including safeguards against collusion, bias, conflicts of interest, arbitrary decisions, and other factors that could undermine confidence in the process.

Industry Roundtables

KOBD will continue to engage with industry and broadband partners via the Industry Roundtables. However, they will be paused until further notice as KOBD works through the BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Round. Archived information is below.

Industry Roundtable Records are linked below:

• June 12, 2025: Industry Roundtable Recording
• June 26, 2025: Industry Roundtable Recording
• July 10, 2025: Industry Roundtable Recording
• July 24, 2025: Industry Roundtable Recording
• July 28, 2025: Industry Roundtable Recording

Horario de oficina

KOBD will hold BEAD Office Hours to support applicants.

• July 17, 2025: Office Hours Recording

BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Webinar

• Grabación del seminario web
• Diapositivas PPT

BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Technical Application Webinar

• Diapositivas PPT
• Grabación

BEAD: Benefit of the Bargain Updates

Policy Notice

In accordance with the Policy Notice issued by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on June 6, 2025, locations served by Unlicensed Fixed Wireless Providers (ULFW) are now permitted to compete for Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) subgrants. Thus, to ensure locations already served by an ULFW service that meets the technical specifications of the BEAD Program are not included in awards for BEAD deployment projects, these locations are eligible for removal from BEAD consideration. Thus, the Kansas Office of Broadband Development (KOBD) have taken, and shall take, the following steps:

• KOBD reviewed the FCC’s National Broadband Map to identify locations that are served by an ULFW service provider (technology code 70) and that currently offer service to any BEAD-eligible Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs) within the State of Kansas. The list of identified locations is available for review and download aquí.
• ULFW service providers seeking removal of BEAD-eligible locations referenced in the KOBD file must declare their intent to submit evidence that BEAD funding is not required for the location(s) it serves via email to [email protected] within seven (7) calendar days of this notice (deadline: 5:00 p.m. CT, June 19, 2025). Upon submission of the provider’s intent to submit documentation to remove location(s) served by ULFW, providers will then have seven (7) calendar days to provide the supporting documentation and evidence to KOBD.
• The documentation and evidence must demonstrate the existing ULFW services meet the technical and service standards required for an ULFW application for a BEAD subgrant (see Appendix A of the Policy Notice) and the provider is reasonably capable of delivering the service for at least four (4) years after the date of Final Proposal submission.
• KOBD reserves the right to request additional evidence from the ULFW service provider and request information from other sources.

If an ULFW service provider successfully demonstrates compliance with the requirements outlined in the Policy Notice, those served BSLs will be ineligible for BEAD Program funding. Failure to respond to this notice, or to meet the specified requirements, will result in the locations remaining eligible for BEAD funding.

Centro de ayuda BDC

• Desafío de tejidos a granel FAQ

Permisos

• Página de recursos sobre permisos

Información

Para denunciar sospechas de fraude, despilfarro o abuso, póngase en contacto con la Oficina de Investigaciones de la Oficina del Inspector General del Departamento de Comercio de Estados Unidos.

• Revise la Detectar y combatir el fraude presentación del Departamento de Comercio
• Línea directa de la OIG: (800) 424-5197
• Formulario de denuncia en línea
• Póster informativo sobre represalias por denuncia de irregularidades
• Cómo denunciar sospechas de fraude o abusos conocidos en el marco de los programas KOBD

Para más información, visite la Oficina del Inspector General del Departamento de Comercio aquí.

Información sobre el proceso de impugnación

Policy Notice issued on June 6, did not require us to rerun the Challenge Process.

Basado en Propuesta inicial Volumen 1 Plan de Transparencia (página 15), KOBD hará públicas todas las impugnaciones y refutaciones presentadas antes de que se tomen las decisiones definitivas sobre las impugnaciones, con la siguiente información:

1. El proveedor, organización sin ánimo de lucro o unidad de gobierno local que presentó la impugnación,
2. El grupo de bloques censales que contiene el BSL impugnado,
3. El proveedor cuestionado,
4. El tipo de reto (por ejemplo, disponibilidad o velocidad), y
5. Un resumen de la impugnación, incluido si el proveedor presentó una impugnación.

KOBD no publicará ninguna información personal identificable (IPI) o información de propiedad, incluyendo nombres de suscriptores, direcciones postales o direcciones IP de clientes. Para garantizar la protección de toda la IIP, KOBD eliminará cualquier IIP de todas las impugnaciones y refutaciones antes de su publicación. Además, se proporcionará orientación a todos los impugnadores sobre qué información puede publicarse. La siguiente lista incluye todas las impugnaciones presentadas, pero no todas las impugnaciones presentadas en la lista fueron aprobadas para pasar a la refutación. Puede descargar todas las impugnaciones presentadas aquí.

KOBD recibió la aprobación de la NTIA a nuestra Propuesta Inicial Volumen 1 y sigue avanzando en el proceso de impugnación.

The official Challenge Process ran from NOON CT on Friday, December 15, 2023, until Sunday, January 14,2024 at 5:00 p.m. CT.

Las cuatro fases del proceso de impugnación:

• Publicar la lista de lugares elegibles
• Aceptar retos
• Solicitar réplicas
• Determinación final

Entre las entidades impugnadoras admisibles se incluyen:

• Gobiernos tribales o locales
• Organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro
• Proveedores de servicios de Internet

Información sobre la ubicación:

• Esta lista se basa en la versión 2 del mapa de disponibilidad de banda ancha nacional, con actualizaciones iterativas a partir del 7 de noviembre. La versión 3 se utilizará en la deduplicación final. 
• KOBD realizó: Modificaciones de Tecnología/DSL, Modificaciones de Pruebas de Velocidad y Deduplicación utilizando el Kit de Herramientas de la NTIA, tal y como se especifica en el Volumen 1 de la Propuesta Inicial BEAD.

Proceso posterior a la deduplicación: KOBD utilizará el kit de herramientas de la NTIA y deduplicará nuestros actuales programas de subvenciones estatales, LINC, BAG 3.0 y el modelo federal de costes alternativos mejorados de Connect America (EACAM), que pueden concederse y/o contratarse durante el proceso de impugnación. Las impugnaciones de compromisos ejecutables para estas ubicaciones del programa no son necesarias.

Recordatorio de licencia: Las licencias son necesarias cuando se utilizan las plantillas precargadas de información de ubicación del portal de impugnaciones y permiten presentar una impugnación en varias ubicaciones a la vez.

Las entidades elegibles (gobiernos tribales/locales, organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro y proveedores de servicios de Internet) pueden solicitar licencias a CostQuest, sin coste alguno. Más información en la página web de la NTIA aquí.

El proceso oficial de impugnación se esbozaba en el Volumen 1 de la Propuesta Inicial y exigía que el proceso fuera transparente, basado en pruebas y expeditivo.

Desafío Recursos

Enlaces a seminarios web

A continuación encontrará enlaces a los seminarios organizados por KOBD, así como información sobre los próximos.

1. ¿Qué incluyen estos datos BSL proporcionados? Estos archivos .csv que contienen las ubicaciones BSL enlazadas para comentario público fueron proporcionados específicamente por la NTIA. Estos datos no reflejan todas las zonas con compromisos ejecutables. Este trabajo se realizará mediante un proceso denominado deduplicación. KOBD está esperando la herramienta de la NTIA para completarlo.
2. ¿Cuál es la actualización de los premios RDOF a efectos de impugnación? Las zonas que hayan recibido fondos federales o estatales y cumplan los requisitos de velocidad 100/20 para servicios de banda ancha cualificados en el marco del BEAD no podrán optar a los fondos del BEAD. Por lo tanto, las zonas ya adjudicadas serán eliminadas en el proceso de deduplicación BEAD. En el proceso de deduplicación se identifican y eliminan las ubicaciones aptas para el servicio de banda ancha, lo que las hace inelegibles para recibir financiación del BEAD.
3. ¿Tendrá la Oficina de Desarrollo de la Banda Ancha de Kansas la oportunidad de abogar a nivel federal? Sí, seguirá habiendo oportunidades periódicas para que las entidades elegibles, como los gobiernos estatales, presenten comentarios públicos a la FCC y a la NTIA. También existen oportunidades informales para hacer llegar comentarios a las agencias federales pertinentes.
4. ¿Podemos suponer, entonces, que todos los BSL con "2" en el campo "Final_Eligibility" se consideran ya atendidos, y salvo cambios futuros en este estado, estos BSL quedarán categóricamente excluidos de todas las solicitudes en el próximo programa BEAD? Se pueden atender hasta 20% de los BSL de un Área de Proyecto. Sin embargo, el coste del Área de Proyecto se limitaría únicamente a aquellos BSL que no estén servidos (0) o estén insuficientemente servidos (1) en el campo Final_Eligibility. KOBD no financiaría explícitamente ubicaciones atendidas (2).
5. Deduplicación: Identificar las ubicaciones aptas para el servicio de banda ancha que están sujetas a compromisos ejecutables y retirar a dichas ubicaciones la condición de "aptas".