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Orion E-Rate Consortium E-rate: who serves it, contracts ending, C2 budget left

USAC committed $7.2M to Orion E-Rate Consortium (Texas) over FY2024-2026 across 78 funding requests from 1 providers; no filed Category 2 budget is left in the FY2026-2030 cycle, 0 contracts end in the next 12 months and 0 Form 470s are open.

Selling to Orion E-Rate Consortium? USAC committed $7.2M to it over FY2024-2026, $2.5M in FY2026. Here is who holds its services today, which contracts end soon, what equipment is already installed, and how much Category 2 budget it still has to spend.

Texas · FY2026 · updated nightly from USAC open data
For providers and resellersSelling to Orion E-Rate Consortium
0open 470s

No 470 open today

When Orion E-Rate Consortium posts a Form 470 it takes bids for 28 days. The alert below tells you the day it does.

1providers FY2026

Incumbents

Providers funded at Orion E-Rate Consortium this year.

0contracts ending

Within 12 months

E-rate contracts at Orion E-Rate Consortium that reach their end date in the next year.

See its 470s, incumbents and budget →Free account. Opens on Orion E-Rate Consortium with every open 470, who holds each service and the Category 2 budget left.
0 of 32 FY2026 requests had a single bidder90% discount rate: pays 10 cents on the dollarIncumbents: SmartCom Telephone, LLCEmail me when Orion E-Rate Consortium opens a 470
$7.2M
committed FY2024-2026
78
funding requests
1
providers
–
C2 left, FY2026-2030

Commitments by year

Funding yearCommittedFunding requestsProviders
FY2026$2,533,514321
FY2025$2,440,883281
FY2024$2,212,663181

Who serves Orion E-Rate Consortium

Every provider with a funded request at Orion E-Rate Consortium in the last three funding years: the incumbents a bid has to displace.

ProviderServicesYearsCommitted FY2024-2026
SmartCom Telephone, LLCData and internetFY2024, FY2025, FY2026$7,187,061

Common questions

Who provides E-rate services to Orion E-Rate Consortium?

SmartCom Telephone, LLC (Data and internet, $7.2M).

Does Orion E-Rate Consortium have an E-rate Form 470 open right now?

Not as of Nov 5, 2026. Form 470s post most weeks in the fall and winter and take bids for 28 days.

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Compiled from public records and refreshed nightly; last updated Nov 5, 2026. Figures are as USAC publishes them; committed amounts are funding commitments, not payments. Contract end dates on June 30 are left out because many applicants enter the funding-year end instead. Check the source before acting. See something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.