Keenwire Celebrates over $83 Million in Broadband Stimulus Awards to Three Clients
8/18/2010
Keenwire is pleased to announce a third award from the broadband stimulus program to our clients; with the Florida Rural Broadband Alliance “FRBA” ($23M BTOP) joining our other awardees Rivada SeaLion ($31M BIP) and North Florida Broadband Authority “NFBA” ($30M BTOP). Here’s what our clients have to say:
“Keenwire was instrumental to our successful ARRA RUS bid in Round One! They are easy to work with and were critical members of our grant application team. The results speak for themselves – Rivada SeaLion has been awarded a $31M BIP Grant, after being selected as one in 18 out of 2,200 RUS BIP/BTOP applicants Nationwide to proceed to the second phase and the first company in the Nation certified as 100% complete and qualified on its app to the US Dept of Agriculture.”
~ Rob Needham, SVP, Rivada Networks
“Keenwire provided the NFEDP, and ultimately the North Florida Broadband Authority with the experience and expertise necessary to form the business and technology model to pursue a winning grant application. As part of a public procurement process, the NFBA also awarded Keenwire with the engineering contract as the most highly qualified candidate against many other national firms and Keenwire continues as an essential component to the success of that project.”
~ Jeff Hendry, Executive Director, NFEDP