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School internet and Wi-Fi (E-Rate)

We put schools that have posted a request in front of the network, cabling and Wi-Fi companies that have done that exact work nearby, before the school’s signing date. The company pays a fixed fee. The school never pays.

We have served clients in this market.

How the market works

Demand side

Schools that have posted a request for internet, switches or Wi-Fi and must wait 28 days before they may sign. We know each school’s signing date and its technical contact.

Supply side

Companies approved to sell to schools, picked only if they have done that exact work nearby: internet providers, network integrators, cabling crews.

School needs internet. Internet company gives internet. Federal school funding pays the bill: about $2.7B a year through E-Rate. Nearly one in five real contracts draws a single bid or none.

A school must post its request and wait 28 days. The school is announcing: I am buying this, here is my date. What a company is buying from us is the opening it would have missed, while there is still time to bid, at a school that has already answered. We sell access and timing, never exclusivity.

The lanes

Lane	What it is	Signal
Lost a named bid	A company that bid on this district’s work and lost.	“You bid on X at Y and Z took it.”
Had school work, none this year	Earlier-year school work, nothing since.	“In the 2025 school year you had $X of school work. Nothing this year.”
Registered seller	Approved to sell, nothing more.	“I have schools in that state buying it.” Nothing else.

The numbersCurrent figures

15,260

schools with a contact on file

250

with a request open now (28 Sep 2026)

14,265

companies approved to sell to schools

1,468

have done internet work

3,254

have done Wi-Fi and cabling

~1,091

schools posting a week at the January peak

Schools · live nowAs of 2 Oct 2026

In conversation with school districts in 6 states, and with technology companies in 4 others. Districts that have written back are in MA, MI, FL, TX, IL and KS. Companies that have written back are in MA, MO, MI and FL. Several districts have confirmed their requests are open and we are matching companies to them as each comes up.

states with a district reply

states with a company reply

~380

live school requests nationwide on 1 Oct

150

school and company emails logged since 29 Sep

46 → 4

providers reached on one Illinois job, 4 replied, 2 asked for the introduction

$970–$3,500

fixed fees quoted across four live jobs

A Florida charter school sent us its full RFP, bids due 15 January 2027: 90 Wi-Fi access points, five switches, a firewall and 100 cable drops.
A Massachusetts district is buying 90 access points. Its IT director wants proposals by the end of October. One vendor’s sales team routed it to their VP of sales for payment details.
An Illinois district is buying 15 managed switches and 55 Wi-Fi 7 access points with five years of maintenance. Two providers asked for the introduction, a third is considering.
Indiana and Texas: 32 districts reached in one day, 12 in Indiana and 20 in Texas, with 30 matched internet companies on hold until a district says it is still open.

Counts are from our own records. None of these is closed yet, and the district names stay private until the paperwork is done.

How we work it

Pull this week’s requests, soonest signing date first

Write to the school’s technical contact: is the request still open?

When a school answers, pull up to five companies that did exactly that work nearby

Read the school’s full request, not the label, before writing to a single company

Fee, terms, one introduction email, the same business day

Fee

Fixed fee per introduction, paid by the company, never by the school (a public school buys through its own posted request and cannot pay a broker). Live introductions have been priced at $2,480.

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