Furnace Creek USDA RD BTA Grant Funded Last-Mile Design Project
The County of Inyo is soliciting proposals from firms with demonstrated experience in designing fiber-optic network solutions to develop and deliver detailed engineering design plans to be used for future construction projects of high-speed, last-mile broadband infrastructure to communities, households, and businesses in the area.
This project, funded by a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA) grant, is intended to create shovel-ready, last-mile, detailed network engineering designs for broadband Internet service in the exceptionally rural area of Furnace Creek, California. Our project area includes the residential area for Death Valley National Park Service (NPS) employees at Park Village at Cow Creek, located about 4 miles north of Furnace Creek, to the resort about 1 mile south-southeast of Furnace Creek.
This project is for pre-construction work only, as the USDA RD BTA Grant will not fund any construction.
The amount budgeted for this work is $93,500.