Iowa got offers from one vendor to buy or lease the...
Iowa got offers from one vendor to buy or lease the Iowa Communications Network, the Iowa Telecommunications and Technology Commission told us it planned to say in a news release Monday that wasn’t posted online by our deadline. The state…
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first issued a request for proposals for the municipal fiber network in February, with bids due at the end of May (CD Feb 19 p7). The interested vendor is Iowa Network Services and it made two offers. Iowa Network Services described itself as providing 330 Iowa communities “with a self-healing statewide fiber optic voice and data network, engineered and continuously upgraded to minimize service interruptions,” said its website (http://bit.ly/18bEKgz). The Iowa Telecommunications and Technology Commission will discuss the offers in a call Wednesday morning and then issue a recommendation to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) Friday, the commission said. Iowa Communications Network Executive Director Dave Lingren declined comment on the nature of the two offers and said there would be no more information disclosed until after the Wednesday call.