Connect New Mexico Pilot (ARPA-CPF)
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The Connect New Mexico Pilot (ARPA-CPF) aims to bridge the digital divide and foster socioeconomic progress by providing infrastructure grants for broadband deployment to unserved and underserved communities across New Mexico. This program is funded with support from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and the New Mexico Capital Projects Fund (CPF).
Contact:
Andy Exell ARPA-CPF Coordinator NM Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE) [email protected] 505-490-2818 Application Submission CLOSED
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Templates and Forms
Download Templates and Forms below:
- ARPA-CPF Pilot Program RFR Revisions
- Example - NOO - 2 Vendor Form OBAE
- Example - NOO - Multi-Vendor Form OBAE
- NOO - 2 Vendor Form OBAE (fillable) Jan 2025
- NOO - Multi-Vendor Form OBAE (fillable) Jan 2025
- Request For Payment Form (fillable) FINAL
- V8 Pilot-ARPA-CPF Template for RFR NOO Invoice Listing & Examples
Office Hours
Upcoming Office Hours:
For more info or to access office hours, contact: Andy Exell
ARPA-CPF Coordinator, NM Office of Broadband Access and Expansion,
[email protected]
505-490-2818
- Thursday, May 29, 3-4pm
For more info or to access office hours, contact: Andy Exell
ARPA-CPF Coordinator, NM Office of Broadband Access and Expansion,
[email protected]
505-490-2818
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Reporting
Awarded Projects
Connect New Mexico Pilot projects (ARPA) awarded:
- Chaves County - Penasco Valley Telephone Coop - $486,595
- Cibola County - Pueblo of Laguna - $9,050,049.88
- Cibola County - Oso Internet Solutions - $5,789,283.37
- Doña Ana County - Comcast - Chaparral, La Union - $7,880,420.38
- Doña Ana County - Comcast - Anthony, Vado, La Mesa - $8,715,046
- Luna County - Valley Telecom Group - $3,704,815.40
- McKinley County - Sacred Wind Communications Western Gallup / Thoreau Project - $1,041,927
- Otero County - Tularosa Communications- Dog Canyon, Dog Ranch, Otero Project - $4,247,625
- Otero County & Lincoln County - Tularosa Communications - Bent/Alamogordo Project - $7,447,454
- Rio Arriba County - Jemez Mountain Electric Coop - $5,993,281
- San Juan County - Comcast - Aztec, San Juan - $8,875,469.25
- San Juan County - Comcast - Bloomfield - $6,683,568.75
- Sandoval County - Pueblo of Jemez - $8,565,942
- Sandoval County - Pueblo of Santa Ana - $$2,665,775.02
- Sandoval County - Santo Domingo Pueblo - $9,220,154.07
- Santa Fe County - Pueblo of Nambe - $5,233,436.91
- Sierra County - Sacred Wind Communications: Truth or Consequences Project - $8,482,110
- Socorro County - Socorro Electric Cooperative - $5,095,992
- Torrance County & Santa Fe County - Central New Mexico Electric Coop - $6,569,755
Awarded Project Details
Sacred Wind Communications: Truth or Consequences Project
Sierra County
$8,482,110.00
A 3-year fiber broadband infrastructure project to construct a broadband network capable of speeds up to 1 Gbps for 2,781 residential locations and 174 businesses, farms, and community anchor institutions within the rural Southern New Mexico communities of Truth or Consequences and Williamsburg. This will allow subscribers to engage in online opportunities, including education, healthcare and employment. Only 23 locations within the project area are considered served.
Project Operational: 10/31/2025
Central New Mexico Electric Coop
Torrance County / Santa Fe County
$6,569,755.00
CNMEC is looking to become a broadband provider to help support the rural communities for which they presently provide electric service. CNMEC wants to provide a broadband service at a low and reasonable cost while providing customer with at least 11Mbps/100Mbps. The project area is 5.7 square miles of the unserved areas of Mountainair and Estancia in Torrance County and rural Santa Fe county that includes 398 businesses, 1,691 households, 35 community institutions with an estimated 4,771 people in the area. Construction will be a combination of middle mile ariel fiber using their own poles and last mile through feed the fiber-to-the home (FTTH).
Project Operational: 8/1/2025
Tularosa Communications - Bent/Alamogordo Project
Otero County / Lincoln County
$7,447,454.00
Tularosa Communications, Inc. (TCI) is proposing a last-mile fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) project in unserved and underserved Otero County (in areas around Bent and Alamogordo) and Lincoln County (in the Sun Valley area northwest of Alto) New Mexico. The proposed project will be capable of providing 100/100 Mbps and up to 1/1 Gbps to 1,071 locations (including 23 served locations) and will deploy 78.7 miles of aerial and buried fiber optic cable. The main beneficiaries of this project will be rural residential end-users.
Project Operational: 1/31/2026
Valley Telecom Group
Luna County
$3,704,815.40
The Village of Columbus is in southern Luna County and is about 3 miles north of the border between the United States and Mexico. The village limits extend south to the international border. The proposed project will connect Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.’s (VTC’s) existing fiber in Columbus to unserved and underserved areas of rural Luna County. The availability of fiber in the area will improve redundancy and reliability for the County and increase available internet speeds to 1/1 Gbps to 822 locations.
Project Operational: 5/25/2025
Socorro Electric Cooperative
Socorro County
$5,095,992.00
Socorro Electric Cooperative (SEC) is partnering with Redbolt Broadband, a subsidiary of Continental Divide Electric Cooperative to provide services to the Village of Magdalena as a pilot project for the two Cooperatives to work together. The Village of Magdalena is wholly unserved per the New Mexico Broadband Map. SEC will build about 31 miles of middle mile fiber between the Socorro and Magdalena substations, and then another 19 miles of fiber within the Village of Magdalena. In doing this, SEC is able to create the first fiber to the premise network in the 11,000 square miles of the Socorro Electric Cooperative service territory. The Village of Magdalena is about 690 residents, covers 6.2 square miles.
Project Operational: 5/1/2025
Sacred Wind Communications Western Gallup / Thoreau Project
McKinley County
$1,041,927.00
SWC Tele solutions (SWCT; dba Ethos Broadband) is requesting $1,041,927 of grant funding to fund a 2-year fixed wireless broadband infrastructure project to construct a broadband network capable of speeds up to 500 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload for 435 residential, business, and community institutions locations within rural northwestern New Mexico mobile home parks and surrounding areas in West Gallup and Thoreau, where 100% of premises are unserved or underserved. These mobile home parks are targeted for cutting-edge high-speed microwave technologies where current infrastructures do not support landline solutions.
Project Operational: 2/28/2025
Tularosa Communications- Dog Canyon, Dog Ranch, Otero Project
Otero County
$4,247,625.00
Tularosa Communications, Inc. (TCI) is proposing a $9,078,900 last-mile fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) project in unserved and underserved Otero County, New Mexico. TCI proposes to build FTTP in three project areas (Sunspot, Dog Canyon, and Dog Ranch Road) north of La Luz, and south of Alamogordo and west of Boles Acres. The project will serve a "Rural Area" as defined in the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission's rules. The proposed project will be capable of providing 100/100 Mbps and up to 1/1 Gbps to 632 locations. The proposed project will deploy 78 miles of aerial and buried fiber optic cable to 632 addresses in the project areas, including 585 homes, 28 businesses, 17 farms, and two community institutions. Project Operational: 1/2/2026
Pueblo of Laguna
Cibola County
$9,050,049.88
The Pueblo of Laguna is seeking funding for the planning, design and construction plan for a full fiber to the premise (“FTTP”) network solution that would serve every unserved premise within the Pueblo of Laguna in western New Mexico. Within the Pueblo, currently 100% of the 1,378 residences or households are categorized as unserved. The Project is a 193-mile, with 105 miles of new aerial fiber backbone and FTTP construction to deliver qualified broadband up to speeds of 100 symmetrical to all unserved residents, businesses and community institutions of the Pueblo. Project Operational: 12/25/2026
Jemez Mountain Electric Coop
Rio Arriba County
$5,993,281.00
Jemez Mountain is looking to become a broadband provider to help support their rural communities for which they presently provide electric service.The targeted beneficiaries of this project are the unserved and underserved unincorporated areas of Hernandez, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Chamita, Alcalde, El Duende, La Villita, Los Luceros, Lyden, Canova, Velarde in Rio Arroyo County and parts of the unserved and underserved areas of northern Espanola. Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Penasco Valley Telephone Coop
Chaves County
$486,595.00
Penasco Valley Telephone Coop. Inc. has been operating in the telecommunications industry since 1949 covering nearly 5,000 square miles of rural areas in southeast New Mexico. The proposed project will deploy Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) construction to bring upgraded services to provide reliable and future proof broadband service to 41 serviceable addresses and 88 total lots passed. This project includes construction of 12.5 miles of aerial FTTP which will provide up to 1 Gig x 50 Mbps Internet service within 3 years. Project Operational: 6/15/2025
Oso Internet Solutions
Cibola County
$5,789,283.37
Oso Internet Solutions is requesting $8,086,075.20 of grant funding to fund a 3-year fiber broadband infrastructure project to construct a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband network capable of speeds up to 1 Gbps download by 1 Gbps upload for 109 residences in a very economically distressed area within Cibola County, that includes Ramah Navajo Chapter tribal land. 100% of these locations are unserved or underserved and encompass both Tribal (Ramah Navajo) and non-Tribal areas. Because there is such a need for fast, affordable broadband access in this community, there is also a great amount of community support from residents, businesses, and other local government entities. The project includes approximately 49 miles of newly constructed buried, middle and last-mile fiber construction. Project Operational: 1/31/2025
Pueblo of Jemez
Sandoval County
$8,565,942.00
The Pueblo of Jemez, through JemezNet (JNET), a tribally chartered corporation created to manage the Pueblo’s network, will deliver a last mile, up to 10 Gigabit Per Second capable Passive Optical Network to all homes within the Pueblo of Jemez. The objectives of the Pueblo of Jemez’s deployment are to establish connectivity and internet delivery to all tribal member residents that is reliable, high speed, low-latency in a secure, maintainable, and scalable way. This community-led project serves the main village of the Pueblo of Jemez and includes 687 single family homes. Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Pueblo of Santa Ana
Sandoval County
$2,665,775.02
Santa Ana Pueblo is requesting funds to connect to existing infrastructure, running approximately 11.7 miles of new and 2.77 miles of upgraded fiber backbone and 6.4 miles of laterals, to 275 households and one business on Pueblo land. This project is the final phase of the Pueblo’s Department of Information Technologies’ strategic plan to bring fiber broadband to all community institutions, businesses, and residences in the Pueblo. Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Santo Domingo Pueblo
Sandoval County
$9,220,154.07
Santo Domingo Pueblo is proposing this project because there is a critical need to connect the Tribal members and the adjacent communities of Sile and Pena Blanca. The Project is divided into four phases. Phases 1 & 2 are within the Santo Domingo Pueblo boundaries. Phases 2 & 3 proposes expansion of its WISP to the neighboring communities of Sile and Pena Blanca. Both communities are located in rural areas and lack access to reliable, affordable internet connectivity. This broadband deployment and will connect up to 855 households and associated entities, enabling the Pueblo to provide qualifying, unlimited, and high speed access to 100/100 Mbps upon the project’s completion. Project Operational: 10/30/2026
Pueblo of Nambe
Santa Fe County
$5,233,436.91
The Pueblo of Nambé is proposing the Pueblo of Nambé Broadband Deployment Project
which is intended to ensure that the Pueblo members have reliable qualifying broadband service which will provide funding for the following project elements. Deploy and construct qualifying broadband service (fiber) to
two hundred fifty underserved Pueblo households and four community anchor institutions. Construct one cell tower/site, which will serve surrounding communities and ensure that reliable wireless capabilities exist for public safety purposes within remote areas of the Pueblo; and construct and deploy one tower repeater at the Pueblo of Nambé Falls Ranger Station and Recreation area.Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Comcast - Aztec, San Juan
San Juan County
$8,875,469.25
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 1,758 unserved and underserved total locations including 1,681 households, 35 businesses, 37 farms, and 5 community anchor institutions in Aztec. None of the above locations have access to wireline-based broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Upon completion of the project the network will be capable of symmetrical service of 1 gigabit or higher speeds, highly reliable and scalable, permitting bandwidth and low latency potential well beyond foreseeable needs.Project Operational: 12/1/2025
Comcast - Bloomfield
San Juan County
$6,683,568.75
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 1,055 unserved and underserved total locations including 942 households, 71 businesses, 37 farms, and 5 community anchor institutions. None of the above locations have access to wireline-based broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Project Operational: 12/1/2025
Comcast - Chaparral, La Union
Dona Ana County
$7,880,420.38
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 4,816 unserved and underserved total locations including 4,649 households, 88 businesses, 59 farms and 20 anchor institutions in Chaparral, La Union, and Santa Teresa. None of the above locations have access to broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Project Operational: 12/1/2025
Comcast - Anthony, Vado, La Mesa
Dona Ana County
$8,715,046.00
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 3,398 unserved and underserved total locations including 3,145 households, 129 businesses, 110 farms and 14 anchor institutions. None of the above locations have access to wireline-based broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Project Operational: 12/1/2025
Sierra County
$8,482,110.00
A 3-year fiber broadband infrastructure project to construct a broadband network capable of speeds up to 1 Gbps for 2,781 residential locations and 174 businesses, farms, and community anchor institutions within the rural Southern New Mexico communities of Truth or Consequences and Williamsburg. This will allow subscribers to engage in online opportunities, including education, healthcare and employment. Only 23 locations within the project area are considered served.
Project Operational: 10/31/2025
Central New Mexico Electric Coop
Torrance County / Santa Fe County
$6,569,755.00
CNMEC is looking to become a broadband provider to help support the rural communities for which they presently provide electric service. CNMEC wants to provide a broadband service at a low and reasonable cost while providing customer with at least 11Mbps/100Mbps. The project area is 5.7 square miles of the unserved areas of Mountainair and Estancia in Torrance County and rural Santa Fe county that includes 398 businesses, 1,691 households, 35 community institutions with an estimated 4,771 people in the area. Construction will be a combination of middle mile ariel fiber using their own poles and last mile through feed the fiber-to-the home (FTTH).
Project Operational: 8/1/2025
Tularosa Communications - Bent/Alamogordo Project
Otero County / Lincoln County
$7,447,454.00
Tularosa Communications, Inc. (TCI) is proposing a last-mile fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) project in unserved and underserved Otero County (in areas around Bent and Alamogordo) and Lincoln County (in the Sun Valley area northwest of Alto) New Mexico. The proposed project will be capable of providing 100/100 Mbps and up to 1/1 Gbps to 1,071 locations (including 23 served locations) and will deploy 78.7 miles of aerial and buried fiber optic cable. The main beneficiaries of this project will be rural residential end-users.
Project Operational: 1/31/2026
Valley Telecom Group
Luna County
$3,704,815.40
The Village of Columbus is in southern Luna County and is about 3 miles north of the border between the United States and Mexico. The village limits extend south to the international border. The proposed project will connect Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc.’s (VTC’s) existing fiber in Columbus to unserved and underserved areas of rural Luna County. The availability of fiber in the area will improve redundancy and reliability for the County and increase available internet speeds to 1/1 Gbps to 822 locations.
Project Operational: 5/25/2025
Socorro Electric Cooperative
Socorro County
$5,095,992.00
Socorro Electric Cooperative (SEC) is partnering with Redbolt Broadband, a subsidiary of Continental Divide Electric Cooperative to provide services to the Village of Magdalena as a pilot project for the two Cooperatives to work together. The Village of Magdalena is wholly unserved per the New Mexico Broadband Map. SEC will build about 31 miles of middle mile fiber between the Socorro and Magdalena substations, and then another 19 miles of fiber within the Village of Magdalena. In doing this, SEC is able to create the first fiber to the premise network in the 11,000 square miles of the Socorro Electric Cooperative service territory. The Village of Magdalena is about 690 residents, covers 6.2 square miles.
Project Operational: 5/1/2025
Sacred Wind Communications Western Gallup / Thoreau Project
McKinley County
$1,041,927.00
SWC Tele solutions (SWCT; dba Ethos Broadband) is requesting $1,041,927 of grant funding to fund a 2-year fixed wireless broadband infrastructure project to construct a broadband network capable of speeds up to 500 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload for 435 residential, business, and community institutions locations within rural northwestern New Mexico mobile home parks and surrounding areas in West Gallup and Thoreau, where 100% of premises are unserved or underserved. These mobile home parks are targeted for cutting-edge high-speed microwave technologies where current infrastructures do not support landline solutions.
Project Operational: 2/28/2025
Tularosa Communications- Dog Canyon, Dog Ranch, Otero Project
Otero County
$4,247,625.00
Tularosa Communications, Inc. (TCI) is proposing a $9,078,900 last-mile fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) project in unserved and underserved Otero County, New Mexico. TCI proposes to build FTTP in three project areas (Sunspot, Dog Canyon, and Dog Ranch Road) north of La Luz, and south of Alamogordo and west of Boles Acres. The project will serve a "Rural Area" as defined in the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission's rules. The proposed project will be capable of providing 100/100 Mbps and up to 1/1 Gbps to 632 locations. The proposed project will deploy 78 miles of aerial and buried fiber optic cable to 632 addresses in the project areas, including 585 homes, 28 businesses, 17 farms, and two community institutions. Project Operational: 1/2/2026
Pueblo of Laguna
Cibola County
$9,050,049.88
The Pueblo of Laguna is seeking funding for the planning, design and construction plan for a full fiber to the premise (“FTTP”) network solution that would serve every unserved premise within the Pueblo of Laguna in western New Mexico. Within the Pueblo, currently 100% of the 1,378 residences or households are categorized as unserved. The Project is a 193-mile, with 105 miles of new aerial fiber backbone and FTTP construction to deliver qualified broadband up to speeds of 100 symmetrical to all unserved residents, businesses and community institutions of the Pueblo. Project Operational: 12/25/2026
Jemez Mountain Electric Coop
Rio Arriba County
$5,993,281.00
Jemez Mountain is looking to become a broadband provider to help support their rural communities for which they presently provide electric service.The targeted beneficiaries of this project are the unserved and underserved unincorporated areas of Hernandez, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, Chamita, Alcalde, El Duende, La Villita, Los Luceros, Lyden, Canova, Velarde in Rio Arroyo County and parts of the unserved and underserved areas of northern Espanola. Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Penasco Valley Telephone Coop
Chaves County
$486,595.00
Penasco Valley Telephone Coop. Inc. has been operating in the telecommunications industry since 1949 covering nearly 5,000 square miles of rural areas in southeast New Mexico. The proposed project will deploy Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) construction to bring upgraded services to provide reliable and future proof broadband service to 41 serviceable addresses and 88 total lots passed. This project includes construction of 12.5 miles of aerial FTTP which will provide up to 1 Gig x 50 Mbps Internet service within 3 years. Project Operational: 6/15/2025
Oso Internet Solutions
Cibola County
$5,789,283.37
Oso Internet Solutions is requesting $8,086,075.20 of grant funding to fund a 3-year fiber broadband infrastructure project to construct a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband network capable of speeds up to 1 Gbps download by 1 Gbps upload for 109 residences in a very economically distressed area within Cibola County, that includes Ramah Navajo Chapter tribal land. 100% of these locations are unserved or underserved and encompass both Tribal (Ramah Navajo) and non-Tribal areas. Because there is such a need for fast, affordable broadband access in this community, there is also a great amount of community support from residents, businesses, and other local government entities. The project includes approximately 49 miles of newly constructed buried, middle and last-mile fiber construction. Project Operational: 1/31/2025
Pueblo of Jemez
Sandoval County
$8,565,942.00
The Pueblo of Jemez, through JemezNet (JNET), a tribally chartered corporation created to manage the Pueblo’s network, will deliver a last mile, up to 10 Gigabit Per Second capable Passive Optical Network to all homes within the Pueblo of Jemez. The objectives of the Pueblo of Jemez’s deployment are to establish connectivity and internet delivery to all tribal member residents that is reliable, high speed, low-latency in a secure, maintainable, and scalable way. This community-led project serves the main village of the Pueblo of Jemez and includes 687 single family homes. Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Pueblo of Santa Ana
Sandoval County
$2,665,775.02
Santa Ana Pueblo is requesting funds to connect to existing infrastructure, running approximately 11.7 miles of new and 2.77 miles of upgraded fiber backbone and 6.4 miles of laterals, to 275 households and one business on Pueblo land. This project is the final phase of the Pueblo’s Department of Information Technologies’ strategic plan to bring fiber broadband to all community institutions, businesses, and residences in the Pueblo. Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Santo Domingo Pueblo
Sandoval County
$9,220,154.07
Santo Domingo Pueblo is proposing this project because there is a critical need to connect the Tribal members and the adjacent communities of Sile and Pena Blanca. The Project is divided into four phases. Phases 1 & 2 are within the Santo Domingo Pueblo boundaries. Phases 2 & 3 proposes expansion of its WISP to the neighboring communities of Sile and Pena Blanca. Both communities are located in rural areas and lack access to reliable, affordable internet connectivity. This broadband deployment and will connect up to 855 households and associated entities, enabling the Pueblo to provide qualifying, unlimited, and high speed access to 100/100 Mbps upon the project’s completion. Project Operational: 10/30/2026
Pueblo of Nambe
Santa Fe County
$5,233,436.91
The Pueblo of Nambé is proposing the Pueblo of Nambé Broadband Deployment Project
which is intended to ensure that the Pueblo members have reliable qualifying broadband service which will provide funding for the following project elements. Deploy and construct qualifying broadband service (fiber) to
two hundred fifty underserved Pueblo households and four community anchor institutions. Construct one cell tower/site, which will serve surrounding communities and ensure that reliable wireless capabilities exist for public safety purposes within remote areas of the Pueblo; and construct and deploy one tower repeater at the Pueblo of Nambé Falls Ranger Station and Recreation area.Project Operational: 12/31/2025
Comcast - Aztec, San Juan
San Juan County
$8,875,469.25
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 1,758 unserved and underserved total locations including 1,681 households, 35 businesses, 37 farms, and 5 community anchor institutions in Aztec. None of the above locations have access to wireline-based broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Upon completion of the project the network will be capable of symmetrical service of 1 gigabit or higher speeds, highly reliable and scalable, permitting bandwidth and low latency potential well beyond foreseeable needs.Project Operational: 12/1/2025
Comcast - Bloomfield
San Juan County
$6,683,568.75
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 1,055 unserved and underserved total locations including 942 households, 71 businesses, 37 farms, and 5 community anchor institutions. None of the above locations have access to wireline-based broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Project Operational: 12/1/2025
Comcast - Chaparral, La Union
Dona Ana County
$7,880,420.38
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 4,816 unserved and underserved total locations including 4,649 households, 88 businesses, 59 farms and 20 anchor institutions in Chaparral, La Union, and Santa Teresa. None of the above locations have access to broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Project Operational: 12/1/2025
Comcast - Anthony, Vado, La Mesa
Dona Ana County
$8,715,046.00
Comcast would construct a Fiber to the Home/Premise network (FTTH) to 3,398 unserved and underserved total locations including 3,145 households, 129 businesses, 110 farms and 14 anchor institutions. None of the above locations have access to wireline-based broadband speeds beyond 100/20 Mbps today. Project Operational: 12/1/2025
NOFO Archive
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
The NOFO formally establishes the funding opportunity for the Connect New Mexico Pilot Program. Please review the NOFO to learn about the program purpose, eligibility factors (e.g., project types, service areas, entities), allowable expenditures, key performance requirements (e.g., network performance, service offerings), evaluation criteria, and compliance requirements.
Link to NOFO →
Application
The Application comprises of several questions and other information requests. The Application must be fully completed. Otherwise, the Application will be determined incomplete and not be reviewed.
Link to Application →
Application Intake Portal
All applicants must submit their applications and all materials through the Application Intake Portal.
Application Submission CLOSED
Funding Source
Funding for the Pilot Program is provided by the American Rescue Plan Act’s Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Legislature, through House Bill 2, appropriated $123,066,812 from the Capital for expenditure by the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) in fiscal years 2022 through 2025 to “plan, design, construct, renovate and equip broadband, including alternative and satellite broadband, statewide.”
Scoring Guide
The Scoring Guide provides a detailed overview of the selection criteria. The Scoring Guide identifies the specific categories and consideration factors by which applications will be evaluated. The Scoring Guide aims to provide a methodical, structured approach to comprehensively and consistently evaluate applications and select the most promising applications.
Link to Scoring Guide →
Program Administrator
Senate Bill 93 established the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (“Office of Broadband”) to coordinate state and local broadband efforts. The Office of Broadband is administratively attached to DoIT.
Templates
Please use these templates when preparing your application:
Questions
Email for questions about this program and application:
[email protected]
Application Submission CLOSED
The NOFO formally establishes the funding opportunity for the Connect New Mexico Pilot Program. Please review the NOFO to learn about the program purpose, eligibility factors (e.g., project types, service areas, entities), allowable expenditures, key performance requirements (e.g., network performance, service offerings), evaluation criteria, and compliance requirements.
Link to NOFO →
Application
The Application comprises of several questions and other information requests. The Application must be fully completed. Otherwise, the Application will be determined incomplete and not be reviewed.
Link to Application →
Application Intake Portal
All applicants must submit their applications and all materials through the Application Intake Portal.
Application Submission CLOSED
Funding Source
Funding for the Pilot Program is provided by the American Rescue Plan Act’s Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Legislature, through House Bill 2, appropriated $123,066,812 from the Capital for expenditure by the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) in fiscal years 2022 through 2025 to “plan, design, construct, renovate and equip broadband, including alternative and satellite broadband, statewide.”
Scoring Guide
The Scoring Guide provides a detailed overview of the selection criteria. The Scoring Guide identifies the specific categories and consideration factors by which applications will be evaluated. The Scoring Guide aims to provide a methodical, structured approach to comprehensively and consistently evaluate applications and select the most promising applications.
Link to Scoring Guide →
Program Administrator
Senate Bill 93 established the New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (“Office of Broadband”) to coordinate state and local broadband efforts. The Office of Broadband is administratively attached to DoIT.
Templates
Please use these templates when preparing your application:
Questions
Email for questions about this program and application:
[email protected]
Application Submission CLOSED
