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Feds lift LA-RICS suspension, OK construction on 82-site public-safety LTE project

  • Written by Donny Jackson
  • 2nd May 2015
Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) officials will restart work Monday on its revised, 82-site public-safety LTE system after the federal government today lifted its suspension on the project and waived a clause that would have required LA-RICS to meet a 20% match requirement.

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  • Feds lift LA-RICS suspension, OK construction on 82-site public-safety LTE project
  • Feds lift LA-RICS suspension, OK construction on 82-site public-safety LTE project

Feds lift LA-RICS suspension, OK construction on 82-site public-safety LTE project

Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) officials will restart work Monday on its revised, 82-site public-safety LTE system after the federal government today lifted its suspension on the project and waived a clause that would have required LA-RICS to meet a 20% match requirement.

“That’s great news,” LA-RICS Executive Director Patrick Mallon said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “We are going to be hitting the ground running on Monday.”

Acting on a recommendation from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—NTIA’s contracting office—this evening announced that it has lifted the suspension that had been in place since April 3. Three weeks ago, LA-RICS submitted a revised design for its proposed LTE network—known as a corrective action plan (CAP)—that includes 82 cell sites, as opposed to the 177-site program that was in place when the suspension was announced.

 “NTIA, in close consultation with FirstNet, determined that the revised LA-RICS project plan submitted on April 20 would deliver substantial benefits to the Los Angeles public safety community and could be completed by the statutory deadline of Sept. 30, 2015,” according to an NTIA spokeswoman. “To ensure timely construction of the project and enable continued robust grant oversight, NTIA and NOAA are also requiring LA-RICS to follow a new Corrective Action Plan.

“We appreciate the continued commitment of the LA-RICS staff and Los Angeles City and County officials to seeing this project to fruition, giving first responders in the Los Angeles region the most advanced communications tools to protect the public and save lives.”

Most of the funding for the project is coming from a $154.6 million federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant, which was enabled by stimulus legislation passed in 2009. However, under the CAP budget proposed on April 13, LA-RICS would spend $90 million in BTOP grants on the revised project.

Although LA-RICS will have to meet the Sept. 30 statutory deadline, it will get a reprieve from another rule in the BTOP that requires recipients to meet a 20% matching requirement. In the original CAP budget, LA-RICS was $2.6 million short of meeting the match requirement, but that figure did not include credit contributions from the use of City of Los Angeles fiber backhaul to 19 cell sites located at police departments. IWCE’s Urgent Communications was unsuccessful in its attempts to secure an updated version of the CAP budget in time to be included in this article.

Even with the credits associated with the city fiber backhaul, LA-RICS did not meet the 20% match requirement. But that requirement was waived today by NTIA Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, according to a letter from NOAA to Mallon.

“On April 29, 2015, LA-RICS submitted a third addendum to the CAP response, which included a request for a waiver of the statutory matching requirement that the federal share of any BTOP project not exceed 80%,” the letter states. “On May 1, 2015, Assistant Secretary Strickling granted this waiver.”

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Feds lift LA-RICS suspension, OK construction on 82-site public-safety LTE project
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3 comments

  1. Avatar La-RICS fail 2nd May 2015 @ 3:46 am
    Reply

    Although you note the new
    Although you note the new approval you didn’t note when they would be releasing the new RFP for this completely new project.

  2. Avatar La-RICS fail 2nd May 2015 @ 3:50 am
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    A completely failed project
    A completely failed project thru 3 failed RFPs gets to waste 90 million tax payer dollars on a network that is 1/3 rd of what the project requires to meet public safety needs.

  3. Avatar maynardogle 4th May 2015 @ 2:53 pm
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    The “super-collider” of
    The “super-collider” of public safety radio systems….

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