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BEAD key-dates calendar

BEAD key dates: Florida

Current status: "Provisional awardees" only — no final award list, no contracts in FACTS

Last checked: 24 September 2026. Every entry below is pinned to a named source; caveats travel with the entry. If a date matters to your application or deployment plans, verify it with the source linked.

  1. — Stated goal in the 30 June 2026 FAQs; status unconfirmed

    FloridaCommerce target: finalise subgrant agreements

    FloridaCommerce's stated goal was to finalise BEAD subgrant agreements by July 2026. Our 24 September 2026 watch found the end-July-2026 contract target unconfirmed by any publication — "While there are currently no BEAD contracts in FACTS".

    Source: FloridaCommerce, Office of Broadband — view the source

  2. Post-Award Office Hours & Roundtables FAQs (v22)

    FloridaCommerce's living post-award guidance uses the state's own label "provisional awardees" throughout — Florida still has no published final award list.

    Source: FloridaCommerce, Office of Broadband — view the source

More BEAD dates

  • National key-dates calendar — upcoming obligations and national milestones.
  • Texas — 17 final awards published (provider-level); all BEAD disbursements frozen pending audit
  • Louisiana — 12 announced Benefit-of-the-Bargain awards; first state to sign subgrant agreements
  • California — Proposal ratified 17 September 2026; award agreement not yet signed; no final award list published
  • North Carolina — "Approved BEAD Awards" published — but the state's own caveat says all awards are contingent until contracted in 2026
  • Missouri — Final Proposal NTIA-approved; the state's BEAD page still labels awards "provisional"
  • Alabama — 63 projects announced as "preliminarily approved" — no final award list
  • Colorado — US$103m provisional award rescinded after fraud referral; locations to be rebid

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