Additional Chance to Join PEPPM Consortium
June 10, 2025
As you will recall, when the entire PEPPM contract was rebid in 2022, we asked all PA public, nonpublic schools and libraries to sign the PEPPM E-rate Letter of Agency (LOA) to indicate that they wished to be included in the PEPPM consortium through December 2028. In all, 757 schools and libraries signed the LOA, including all but two public school districts.
E-rate rules require all consortia leads to obtain a signed LOA (Letter of Agency) from their participating members before the E-rate Form 470 is posted. The current PA PEPPM Contract is being rebid this summer, so if you did NOT sign the PEPPM LOA in June/July 2022, you have an additional opportunity to join the PEPPM consortium now! Please note: most LEAs signed the PEPPM LOA in 2022; therefore, this message mostly pertains to charter schools, nonpublic schools and libraries. Which entities already have signed the LOA? Check to see if you’re on this list! If so, you can disregard this message.
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If your name is NOT on this list and you wish to be added to the PEPPM consortium, please complete this online LOA by Wednesday, July 9. www.peppm.org/erate2025/
By signing this LOA, you are not obligating yourself whatsoever to purchase from the PEPPM contract. You are merely stating that you are allowing the PEPPM administrators to include you as an eligible entity on the Form 470. However, if you do not sign the PEPPM LOA, you will NOT be able to use the PEPPM contract for E-rate eligible purchases. Therefore, I encourage all PA public schools to sign the LOA to give yourself as many bidding options as possible should you choose to use the E-rate Category 2 funding in the future.
Although nonpublic schools and libraries typically do not use the PEPPM contract for their E-rate purchases because they don’t have state law bidding restrictions, they are welcome to complete the online PEPPM LOA to give themselves the option to conduct a PEPPM mini-bid in the future.
The online LOA is very simple to complete and should take about 20 seconds. You do not need to print, sign and mail the LOA — the online submission is sufficient. https://www.peppm.org/erate2025/
Again, there is no harm or obligation that will come from signing this LOA; it simply allows you the possibility of using the PEPPM mini-bid process for your procurement on a future E-rate funding request.
Don’t forget – July 9 is the deadline to submit the LOA, so please do it today if you’re not on this list!
If you have any questions, please contact me or Amber Lind at alind@peppm.org.
— Julie
Julie Tritt Schell
Pennsylvania E-rate Coordinator
717-730-7133 – o
jtschell@comcast.net
www.e-ratepa.org