📋 Tender Overview
Scope : Broadband Acceleration and Universal
Access
PROJECT DESCRIPTION/JUSTIFICATION : This program will fund the expansion of communication duct and fiber that will significantly enhance public safety, improve a wide-range of city services and enable equitable and universal access to broadband (high-speed internet). The City will collaborate with other public entities and private carriers and specifically target its funds to "last block" undertakings, ranging from connecting widely dispersed city facilities and assets to specifically connecting low income or geographically stranded neighborhoods that the private sector cannot/will not. This program will leverage significantly larger private sector investments in Dubuque (usually 5X to 7X City investment), provides City infrastructure that reduces costs/improves services for multiple City agencies and create public assets which can in turn be leased or licensed to private partners to recover costs and support future broadband expansion and innovation. Incorporated into this project are several traditionally stand-alone CIPs such as extending the CIty's fiber backbone from 27th and Elm up to Jackson and 32nd and over to Central and 32nd. This brings broadband and surveillance infrastructure to this area of the City. These types of projects have been folded into this request in order to be positioned to reduce costs through public/private partnerships.
