Updated: September 2025
CostQuest has and continues to work with multiple States Broadband Offices on projects related to broadband mapping, network planning, cost modeling, advisory, grant program design, and other custom services to support efficient statewide broadband expansion and maintenance efforts.
Below is a high-level summary of CostQuest’s current and past state broadband projects.
*Note: The summary below only consists of custom state engagements. It does not include CostQuest’s work to provide all State Broadband Offices (Pass-Through Entities) administering each State’s BEAD Program, with access to our Broadband Fabric Location and Network Cost Model data via our contract with the NTIA.
Current State Broadband Projects
Custom BEAD Project Area Design & BEAD Grant Award Management Systems
Louisiana (2024 – Present)
- In early 2024, the State of Louisiana’s Broadband Office, ConnectLA, contracted CostQuest to design their project areas and deliver a custom BEAD Grant Award Management System embedded with their unique project areas and grant selection criteria to implement Louisiana’s Gumbo 2.0 BEAD Grant Selection Program. Louisiana’s BEAD Grant Award Management System incorporates Louisiana’s unique scoring criteria, grant selection logic, and complex scoring algorithms to determine which applications would provide the most significant benefit and overall coverage in Louisiana. The result was a program that was the first BEAD Final Proposal approved by NTIA in January 2025.
- After the June 2025 Policy Restructuring Notice, CostQuest again worked with ConnectLA to establish new project areas and a new grant award management platform that complied with the Benefit of the Bargain round rules. This platform included updated eligibility criteria and scoring rubric that allowed for the selection of provisional awardees included in ConnectLA’s final proposal submission to the NTIA. ConnectLA was again one of the first to file their Final Proposal, and CostQuest will continue to support ConnectLA through curing, NTIA’s acceptance of the Final Proposal, and execution of the Subgrant Agreements.
Wisconsin (2024 – Present)
- CostQuest is contracted to provide a custom BEAD Grant Award Management System to the State of Wisconsin’s Broadband Office, the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW). Wisconsin’s BEAD Grant Award Management System is embedded with Wisconsin’s unique scoring criteria, grant selection logic, and complex scoring algorithms to determine which applications provide the most significant benefit and overall coverage in Wisconsin.
- During the Benefit of the Bargain round, CostQuest worked with PSCW to integrate additional parameters into their existing grant award management platform. PSCW has filed their Final Proposal with NTIA and CostQuest continues to support them through curing and NTIA’s acceptance of their Final Proposal.
oHIO (2022 – 2023; 2025 – PRESENT)
- The State of Ohio’s Broadband Office, BroadbandOhio, engaged CostQuest to develop an analysis of the use of MARCS towers and develop custom cost models for specific geographies to support connecting rural areas to broadband. Ohio used CostQuest’s base Broadband Fabric Location data with additional data attributes to support their understanding of the deployment cost and network business case for their grant programs in relation to the BEAD program.
- After the release of the BEAD Policy Restructuring Notice in June 2025, BroadbandOhio contracted CostQuest to build two custom systems – both a prequalification platform and a grant award management platform – to run concurrently and select BEAD subgrantees. CostQuest incorporated BroadbandOhio’s unique program characteristics, including reason code 5 applications. BroadbandOhio also did not predefine project areas, opting instead to allow applicants to select individual locations within a 12-mile radius. CostQuest was able to accommodate the state’s programmatic requests, support BEAD industry stakeholders, and file their Final Proposal prior to the September 4, 2025, deadline. CostQuest continues to support BroadbandOhio through curing, NTIA’s acceptance of their Final Proposal, and execution of the Subgrant Agreements.
Custom Broadband Fabric Datasets & Consulting Services
California (2020 – Present)
- The State of California engaged CostQuest to develop custom network cost models to support the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) and related projects. California also uses the Broadband Fabric Location data and attributes, and engages CostQuest to develop Last Mile Funding Areas and custom broadband mapping analyses for its funding programs.
Nevada (2022 – Present)
- CostQuest works with the State of Nevada to support its broadband mapping, planning, and grant funding program design. Nevada uses CostQuest’s base Broadband Fabric Location data, other Fabric data attributes, and other custom services to support their broadband program.
Illinois (2024 – Present)
- For the State of Illinois, CostQuest delivered our 5G Cost Model dataset to help understand the cost of deploying 5G infrastructure to Broadband-Serviceable Locations across the state.
Maine (2021 – 2023; 2025 – PRESENT)
- The State of Maine licensed the base Broadband Fabric Location data and other data attributes to identify unserved, underserved, and served Broadband Serviceable Locations and the Fiber and Fixed Wireless infrastructure investment and business case in their state.
- In 2025, CostQuest will provide a suite of specialized geospatial data tools and analytical support in direct alignment with the goals of the Maine Connectivity Authority (MCA)’s Cellular and Wireless Action Plan. The data includes FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) Mobility data and 5G network costs, including capital and operational costs.
Virginia (2024- 2025)
- The State of Virginia contracted CostQuest to prepare cellular cost and coverage maps detailing the cellular coverage footprint (5G served, 4G served and unserved) for all counties within the commonwealth of Virginia. The analysis included capital and operational costs, NPV analyses, location and geographic characteristics.
Past State Broadband Projects
Planning & BroadbandFabric Data Projects
District of Columbia (2022 – 2023)
- For the District of Columbia CostQuest delivered base BroadbandFabric data with technology service availability per each Broadband Serviceable Location to identify served, underserved, and unserved areas across geographies. The District of Columbia uses CostQuest’s BroadbandFabric data and other data attributes to support middle-mile modeling and broadband cost modeling.
Arkansas (2020 – 2023)
- For the State of Arkansas CostQuest delivered BroadbandFabric data and other data attributes to support the estimation of service availability to identify served, underserved, and unserved areas across the State. CostQuest also produced statewide broadband investment data.
Oregon (2022)
- The State of Oregon engaged CostQuest to deliver a custom Cost Model to support their funding programs. The Cost Model involved CostQuest’s BroadbandFabric data and other data attributes, along with custom cost and network modeling.
Missouri (2022)
- The State of Missouri engaged CostQuest to support the analysis of service availability and costs to serve unserved areas using BroadbandFabric data and other data attributes.
Nebraska (2021 – 2022)
- The State of Nebraska uses CostQuest’s SBCM cost modeling with demand locations based on the Broadband Serviceable Locations in CostQuest’s Broadband Fabric data.
Oklahoma (2020 – 2021)
- For the State of Oklahoma CostQuest delivered BroadbandFabric data and other data attributes and performed visual verification on nearly 100,000 locations on Tribal Lands and other geographic areas where parcel data was missing.
New York (2016 – 2021)
- CostQuest worked with the State of New York, to help implement and manage New York’s $500mil reverse auction program, broadband mapping, and statewide cost modeling. As part of our role, we helped design the auction, reviewed bids received by the state for cost reasonableness, helped run the auction, and provided analytics and mapping to support and promote the effort.
Georgia (2018 – 2019)
- CostQuest worked with the State of Georgia, to develop statewide a statewide cost model and to support broadband planning.
South Carolina (2019-2020)
- CostQuest delivered BroadbandFabric data and other data attributes to South Carolina, assisted with the collection of data from service providers, and reconciled and matched provider data to the Broadband Serviceable Locations in CostQuest’s Broadband Fabric data. CostQuest also produced statewide investment models.
Pennsylvania (2017 – 2018)
- CostQuest supported the State of Pennsylvania with broadband mapping, modeling, and planning and helped design and manage its CAFII Incentive auction.
Wisconsin (2010-2015)
- CostQuest supported the State of Wisconsin with broadband mapping and delivered custom cost models for specific geographies.
Digging into the Archive – Select Past State Broadband Projects
In addition to the recent work summarized above, CostQuest has helped several other states with their state broadband projects related to broadband mapping and planning efforts over the years.
The following are a few relevant past projects:
- Alabama (2008 – 2015) – Program management as an SBI grant sub-recipient
- Idaho (2009 – 2015) – Program management as an SBI grant sub-recipient
- Kansas (2014) – Conducted pilot programs across 7 communities
- West Virginia (2014 & 2019) – Developed economic cost models for selected communities
- Wisconsin (2009 – 2016) – Program management as an SBI grant sub-recipient
- Wyoming (2009 – 2015) – Program management as an SBI grant sub-recipient