Connect Holding II LLC

Connect Holding II LLC, operating through its Brightspeed Division, is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Purchase, New York, that specializes in providing comprehensive telecommunications and local exchange services to federal government agencies. As a facilities-based incumbent local exchange carrier with direct ownership of telecommunications infrastructure, Brightspeed delivers critical voice, data, and fiber optic communication solutions to military installations, federal civilian agencies, and defense-related facilities across the United States. The company maintains an active System for Award Management (SAM.gov) registration and has established itself as a specialized provider of mission-critical telecommunications infrastructure for federal clients.

Brightspeed has secured twelve prime federal contract awards totaling approximately $3.66 million since August 2024, demonstrating consistent engagement with Department of Defense agencies and federal civilian entities. The company's contract portfolio spans multiple funding agencies, including the Army Cyber Command, which has awarded five separate contracts for local exchange and voice-data circuit services at Fort Cavazos, Texas; Fort Novosel, Alabama; Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Letterkenny Army Depot, Pennsylvania; and the Raven Rock Mountain Complex, Pennsylvania. Additional prime contracts have been awarded by the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command for local voice and data circuits supporting the National Ground Intelligence Center in Charlottesville, Virginia; the Air Mobility Command for local communication services at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas; the Defense Health Agency for fiber optic cable service at Naval Hospital Beaufort, South Carolina, and analog fax lines at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; the U.S. General Services Administration on behalf of the Office of Personnel Management for Plain Old Telephone Service maintenance at OPM facilities in Pennsylvania; the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Agency for telecom services in the Dare County area; and the Department of the Army for 911 selective routing design services at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. All contract awards were made through full and open competition without small business set-aside designations, utilizing evaluation methodologies that emphasized technical capability, past performance, and price competitiveness. Brightspeed's service offerings under these contracts include direct-inward-dial telephone numbers, commercial subscriber lines, Integrated Services Digital Network Primary Rate Interface circuits, data point-to-point circuits, E911 services, number portability, diverse routing capabilities, and comprehensive 24/7 customer service and technical maintenance support with defined service restoration timeframes.

Brightspeed has received nine federal grant sub-awards since April 2024, positioning the company as an active participant in broadband infrastructure development initiatives across multiple states. The company serves as a subrecipient under state grantees administering federal broadband programs, with awards from the State of Alabama Department of Finance for three separate fiber construction projects in St. Clair County, Pickens County, Mobile County, and Baldwin County designed to provide high-speed internet access to previously unserved and underserved households, businesses, and community anchor institutions. Additional grant sub-awards have been received from the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration for a broadband CPF last-mile grant project, the State of Indiana for a comprehensive broadband infrastructure project spanning multiple counties with a total project cost exceeding $14.3 million, the Executive Office State of Ohio for high-speed internet deployment in areas with infrastructure gaps, and the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity for two separate Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund awards supporting critical capital projects that enable remote work, education, and health monitoring in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Alabama and Indiana projects specifically utilize fiber-to-the-premises technology with passive optical network infrastructure designed to deliver symmetrical speeds ranging from 100 Megabits per second to 2 Gigabits per second, addressing federal objectives to expand broadband access to unserved and underserved communities across rural and economically challenged regions.