Form 470 Monitoring
Every new Form 470 in your territory, without the manual pull
The Form 470 feed is the E-Rate market's demand signal: every filing is a school district or library announcing it wants bids. FRNHQ syncs the full USAC 470 dataset daily and turns it into a filtered lead feed for your states, categories, and keywords, with the 28-day bid clock on every row.
How it works
- 1. Scope your territory. Filter the feed by state, funding year, service category and type, applicant, or keyword, the same cuts you already use to qualify deals.
- 2. New filings surface daily. Each 470 shows the applicant, what they asked for, the certification date, and the Allowable Contract Date, so you know exactly how much bidding window is left.
- 3. Work the winnable ones.Export any view to CSV, check the applicant's funding history and incumbent provider, and spend your response time on bids you can actually win.
Learn the Form 470 game
New to the 470 feed, or want to sharpen how you read it? The guides below cover the whole arc:
- FCC Form 470 Explained: A Service Provider's Guide — what a 470 is and how to read one.
- The Form 470 Timeline — when 470s post and how the 28-day window runs.
- Reading a Form 470 for Winnable Bids — separating real opportunities from wired deals.
- E-Rate Competitive Bidding: How Providers Win FRNs — the rules of the game after you respond.
- E-Rate Filing Deadlines & Calendar — the annual cycle every 470 lives inside.
Form 470 alerts: common questions
- What is Form 470 monitoring?
- A Form 470 is the public notice that a school district or library is soliciting bids for E-Rate funded services. Monitoring means watching that public feed for new filings that match your territory and service categories, so you can respond inside the mandatory 28-day bidding window instead of finding out after a competitor won.
- How quickly do new 470s show up in FRNHQ?
- FRNHQ syncs the USAC Form 470 dataset daily. New filings appear in your lead feed with their certification date and Allowable Contract Date, so the 28-day clock is visible from day one.
- Can I filter 470s by state, category, or keyword?
- Yes. The lead feed filters by state, funding year, service category, service type, applicant name, and free-text keywords across service requests, and any filtered view exports to CSV.
- What is the Allowable Contract Date?
- The Allowable Contract Date (ACD) is the earliest date an applicant may sign a contract after posting its Form 470, set 28 days after certification. FRNHQ shows the ACD on every 470 and flags filings whose window is about to close.
See today's 470s in your states
The feed is live inside FRNHQ now, alongside FRN status alerts, incumbent intelligence, and contract re-bid windows.