Begin Filing Year 6 Form 470s Now
Message Posted May 21, 2002
Although it's hard to believe, the Year 6 Form 470 is now available, which means you may begin posting your Year 6 Requests for Services using the new 470 now at: http://www.sl.universalservice.org/ under Apply Online (or by using the paper version.)
As you know, the SLD allows you to post your Form 470 at any time in order to coincide with your normal procurement procedures. The only exception to this rule was for tariffed and month-to-month services, for which you had to wait until July 1 to post for these services. This year, they released a new, although virtually identical, Form 470 and are allowing you to now post the 470 instead of waiting until July 1.
The 470, as you know, is the form you use to electronically post the services you seek on the SLD website. The posting must remain for 28 calendar days during which you may collect responses (bids) from prospective vendors. On the 29th day or after, you then sign your contract.
The next step is then to wait for the Form 471 filing window to open -- which normally occurs in mid-November and closes in mid-January. The 471 is the mechanism to tell the SLD who the vendor is that you selected, the price, the contract dates, your discount (and how you calculated that discount), and a detailed description of the service or component that you are requesting.
So for everyone in a school or library that is trying to fill their days this summer, you may want to go to the SLD website and get an early start on Year 6 by posting your Form 470's now.
IMPORTANT:
* If you filed a 470 in a previous year and then signed a multi-year contract, you do not need to repost your Form 470. Simply file the 471 when the window opens, using the original 470 number. But....
* Tariff and month-to-month services are considered yearly agreements and thus you must repost a 470 for them every year (unless you signed a multi-year contract for these services). To the SLD, there is no such thing as a multi-year tariff. Or, said in another way, if you don't sign a multi-year contract for any service, you must post a 470 for that service annually.
Julie Tritt Schell
jtschell@comcast.net
(717) 730.7133 (voice)
(717) 730.9060 (fax)
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