REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
EBS Wireless Broadband Network Design, Deployment, and Operations
COLORADO RIVER INDIAN TRIBES
October 5, 2026
ISSUED BY:
Colorado River Indian Tribes
Tribal Council
26600 Mohave Rd.
Parker, AZ 85344
Important legal notice: Nothing in this RFP or any resulting contract shall be construed as a waiver of the sovereign immunity of the Colorado River Indian Tribes.
- General
CRIT is soliciting proposals from qualified design-build entities to deliver an integrated wireless broadband project consisting of two coordinated scopes under a single procurement.
Scope A is a mandatory point-to-point (PtP) institutional transport/backbone network using CRIT’s 2.5 GHz Educational Broadband Service (EBS) spectrum and related facilities as appropriate. This scope is tied to CRIT’s EBS Tribal Priority Window license performance obligations and must be engineered so that CRIT can rely on the resulting operating links for FCC compliance.
Scope B is a mandatory point-to-multipoint (PtMP) access network serving the ACA grant locations identified in the attached service-location schedule. This scope is funded separately from the EBS compliance scope and must therefore be priced, invoiced, documented, and asset-tracked separately even where infrastructure is shared.
CRIT is not seeking a generic feasibility study or a high-level concept paper. CRIT seeks a practical, field-verifiable, design-build solution that can be permitted, constructed, placed into operation, tested, documented, and accepted.
- Serve all mandatory PtP institutional endpoints identified in Attachment 2 through an operational PtP network and associated transport architecture.
- Serve all ACA PtMP service locations identified in Attachment 3 through an operational PtMP access network, including associated base-station, backhaul, and subscriber-side components required by the proposer’s design.
- Use the provided CRIT candidate tower locations as the baseline starting point for design, validate them in the field, and identify any new or alternate sites required to complete the work.
- Provide a current FCC compliance approach based on 47 C.F.R. § 27.14(u) and current FCC guidance applicable to Tribal Window licenses.
- Provide separate pricing, schedule logic, schedules of values, invoicing support, and asset identification by funding source/scope.