Which permits, from whom, and in what order.

We overlay every awarded project area and route against federal, state, county, city, tribal, railroad, irrigation-district and utility permitting layers, and hand back a permit requirement matrix keyed to your project areas. You stop guessing, and your construction schedule stops being a work of fiction.

The named human who actually signs it.

A permit matrix without contacts is homework. We maintain a living directory of federal, state, county, city, tribal, rail and irrigation-district permitting contacts across Idaho — office, person, preferred submission channel, and what they want to see before they will look at anything.

We fill in the form. You sign it.

Forms, exhibits, legal descriptions, maps, fee calculations and cover letters — prepared to the issuing agency’s actual expectations, not to the instructions on the PDF. Your staff signs and submits; nobody on your team learns twelve different agency portals.

Somebody has to call them. It should not be your construction manager.

A live register of every permit — applied, pending, conditioned, issued, expired — with a check-in calendar, an escalation ladder, and a dashboard your operations lead can read in ten seconds. We make the calls.

Start where the permitting is lightest.

Not every mile is equally hard to permit. We rank your project areas and route segments by permitting friction and tell you where to put the first crew — so you are building and drawing down while the hard consultations are still in flight.

Two hours, no charge, your name on the map.

Send us your project areas. We overlay them against published environmental, cultural and land-management layers and hand back a one-page picture of where your build is going to hit resistance. No obligation, no invoice.

The document the Office needs before you can dig.

A full environmental and historic preservation screening report for each project area: resources present, likely NEPA pathway, Section 106 exposure, species and wetland triggers, and the documentation you will need to clear each one.

Most projects qualify. Prove it properly and you save months.

NTIA has adopted a large set of categorical exclusions for broadband, and ESAPTT is built to find them. We assemble the determination and the supporting record so the exclusion holds — including the extraordinary-circumstances analysis that most packages skip.

Held by the hand, all the way through.

We manage the Section 106 process end to end: area of potential effect, records search, identification, effect determination, SHPO correspondence, and the consultation record that the Office and NTIA will want to see.

Eight Idaho projects touch tribal land. Every one is a different relationship.

We prepare the information the Office and NTIA need to initiate tribal notification, support the consultation record, and handle FCC Tower Construction Notification System filings where a structure triggers them.

Water crossings and listed species, packaged for the portal.

Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act consultations prepared, tracked and packaged — and the whole EHP record delivered in the structure the Office’s NEPA user can load into ESAPTT without re-interpreting it.

The agreement you sign in month two governs your costs for ten years.

We review joint-use and pole attachment license agreements against FCC rules, Idaho’s pole-access statute and current market terms, and tell you which clauses will cost you — before you sign, while you still have leverage.

Clocks only help you if somebody is counting.

Applications packaged to the pole owner’s actual requirements, then tracked against every statutory and contractual clock — completeness review, survey, estimate, make-ready — with the escalation letter drafted before the deadline, not after.

You pay for what your attachment caused. Not for their old poles.

We check make-ready estimates and true-ups against the agreement and FCC cost-allocation principles, and build the documented challenge where the owner is shifting the cost of replacing failing plant onto you.

You are billed per pole, per year, for ten years. Is the count right?

An independent attachment inventory reconciled against what each pole owner is invoicing — plus the annual attachment map or list that most agreements require you to furnish and almost nobody does.

Prove the location, don’t argue about it.

For every awarded Location ID we assemble the evidence that says what is actually there — assessor record and roll date, improvement value and year built, address point, structure detection — written as a filing you can submit, not a confidence score you have to defend.

Evidence the Office will accept the first time.

When a location cannot be served — it is gone, it is a barn, or the terrain says no — the difference between a clean removal and a curing cycle is the quality of the evidence. We compile it to the standard we know the Office accepts.

BEAD pays for connections, not passings.

A live reconciliation of what has been passed and what has been connected against the awarded location list, driving the milestone percentages that your disbursement requests are certified against.

Idaho’s authoritative address layer, used properly.

Idaho has a statewide NENA-standard address point and road centerline dataset built for NG9-1-1. It is the best address ground truth in the state, and it is the join key that makes location reconciliation work.

What was built after the fabric was frozen.

New construction inside your project areas that post-dates the awarded location list — found from assessor year-built records and imagery change, ranked, and documented.

Do not leave the professional services line blank.

Attachment 3 to the Idaho Subgrantee Agreement requires one budget per project, and three of its cost categories describe compliance work precisely. Once the agreement is executed, adding that line is very hard. Six hours, and it is the only thing in this catalog with a hard expiry date.

Per item, per invoice, with the certificate attached.

Build America Buy America compliance is not a policy you adopt, it is a document you hold for every item you buy. We build the tracker, screen your vendors, apply the waivers correctly, and keep the evidence in the shape an auditor expects.

Screen it before you spend it, not after.

A screening protocol against 2 CFR 200 cost principles and the agreement’s own prohibited-use clause, run against your actual spend — so a disallowed cost is caught at the purchase order, not at the audit.

The Office is already flagging this.

Match must be secured, maintained throughout disbursements, sourced from funds that are not federal, and documented dollar by dollar. We build the file that proves it.

Monthly, from the effective date, for the life of the award.

The agreement requires monthly expense reporting using GAAP or standard accounting practice, plus monitoring of the relative proportion of costs across key spending areas. We build the template and run the monthly cycle.

Due within 45 days of the milestone. Right the first time.

Every certified disbursement request needs the officer certification, the match expenditure report, the cost report in one of three permitted forms, and the supporting documentation — assembled, checked and packaged so it does not come back.

Sixty-seven obligations. Forty-five critical. Six block construction.

A single register of every obligation in your executed agreement, traced to its clause, with trigger, deadline, named owner and the evidence needed to prove it was met. It turns a fifty-page agreement nobody has read into a list somebody can work from.

Every date, computed from your effective date.

One calendar covering the full period of performance and the ten-year Federal Interest Period, generated from the register, with every dated obligation calculated from your actual effective date.

What moved, what is late, what is next.

A short monthly compliance status report and a quarterly review call with a written note — the rhythm that stops compliance from being something remembered in a panic.

Semiannual, annual, and final.

The recurring reporting the agreement and the federal terms require, prepared from your own system of record and reconciled against what the state’s portal holds.

Thirty days’ notice, and approval is not automatic.

Scope changes, schedule changes, key personnel changes, budget reallocations, ownership changes and restructurings all carry notice and approval obligations. We prepare the request and advise on what the Office has and has not approved for others.

Findable in year seven by someone who was not there in year one.

A repository designed around the retention rule and the audit question — taxonomy, naming, versioning, access control and retention — not a shared drive that grew.

Which audit clause binds you, and what it costs.

Most Idaho subgrantees are for-profit entities. They are not covered by the Single Audit rules at all — they fall under a clause requiring an annual independent audit of the award. Very few have budgeted for it.

The last submission, and the one people are least ready for.

Project completion report with all required officer attestations, the technical report demonstrating capability to all end users and community anchor institutions, final SF-425, final performance report and property reports — assembled and checked.

Twenty-two obligations outlive the construction by a decade.

Service obligations, the low-cost service option, non-discriminatory access, interconnection, property held in trust, record retention and annual performance testing all continue into the ten-year Federal Interest Period. Somebody has to watch them.

Know what the final rule actually requires.

The September 2025 final rule is materially lighter than the December 2024 draft that most people are still quoting. We assess your readiness against the real requirement and tell you what you need to change — years before the first test cycle.

Defensible randomness, documented.

A random sample of technology and per committed speed tier, drawn with a publicly available randomization method from the correct location universe, with the protocol written down so it can be repeated and audited.

It has to go on your own website, certified.

The measurement report must be published on the subgrantee’s own website and certified for accuracy. We write the methodology in publishable form and assemble the publication package.

Built when there is something to test.

Export tooling that produces the USAC performance measurement CSV — one file per technology and speed tier — and, from 2028, execution of the annual test cycle itself.

Your own tenant, your own data, your own audit trail.

Every engagement gets an isolated workspace on the ArcGIS Online and Snowflake platform — schemas, roles, layers, dashboards and logging configured from a standard pattern in under a day.

Their portal, your record.

Idaho has purchased Ready.net. Your reporting goes through it whether you like it or not. We prepare the data in exactly the shape the portal expects, and we keep the independent record of what was submitted.

Photographed once, filed correctly, forever.

ArcGIS Field Maps forms configured for your crews — attachment photos, evidence photos, as-built capture — flowing straight into the evidence record with location, timestamp and EXIF intact.

Ten seconds to know where you stand.

An executive dashboard for the program manager and an exception queue for whoever does the work — because those are different people who need different screens.

One person reads. Every client is briefed.

NTIA guidance, Idaho Office of Broadband updates, FAQ revisions and federal rule changes, read monthly and translated into what changed for you specifically.

Ask the question properly, in writing, once.

Representation at office hours, written enquiries framed so they get a usable answer, and a relationship with the Office that does not depend on your operations director learning the program.

Half a day, and your team stops calling us about the easy things.

Practical workshops for the client’s finance, procurement, operations and construction teams on the obligations that actually touch their jobs.

Learn from the states that went first.

For subgrantees operating outside Idaho: what Idaho does differently and where that will trip you. For everyone: what the states ahead of Idaho are getting wrong, before you repeat it.