Texas § UT.56.108 - SELECTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CARRIER
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§ UT.56.108. SELECTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CARRIER
SELECTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CARRIER. (a) The commission shall select one telecommunications carrier to provide the statewide telecommunications relay access service. (b) The commission shall make a written award of the contract to the telecommunications carrier whose proposal is the most advantageous to this state, considering: (1) price; (2) the interests of the community of persons with an impairment of hearing or speech in having access to a high quality and technologically advanced telecommunications system; and (3) any other factor listed in the commission's request for proposals. (c) The commission shall consider each proposal in a manner that does not disclose the contents of the proposal to a telecommunications carrier making a competing proposal. (d) The commission's evaluation of a telecommunications carrier's proposal shall include the: (1) charges for the service; (2) service enhancements proposed by the carrier; (3) technological sophistication of the network proposed by the carrier; and (4) date proposed for beginning the service. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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