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Payment Process Overview
3. Execute a Frequency Reconfiguration Agreement (or Planning Funding Agreement) with Sprint Nextel
If you require funding for planning activities after you submit a Request for Planning Funding,
you will negotiate a Planning Funding Agreement with Sprint Nextel. For your actual system
reconfiguration, after you submit a Cost Estimate (and SOW for complex systems), you will negotiate
a Frequency Reconfiguration Agreement with Sprint Nextel governing the terms of your reconfiguration.
You will be required to certify that the costs estimated on your Request for Planning Funding and/or
Cost Estimate are the minimum necessary to provide facilities comparable to those presently in use.
Once you and Sprint Nextel have reached an agreement, sign the FRA (or PFA) and return it to Sprint Nextel. The TA will then review your Cost Estimate (or Request For Planning Funding), Frequency Reconfiguration Agreement (or Planning Funding Agreement), and supporting documentation in a timely manner and will:
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Reject it (and provide reasons and/or recommendations)
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Once the TA approves your Cost Estimate (or Request For Planning Funding) and signed Frequency Reconfiguration
Agreement (or Planning Funding Agreement), Sprint Nextel will sign and finalize the Frequency
Reconfiguration Agreement (or Planning Funding Agreement). For more information, please refer to the
section of this Handbook entitled "Negotiate the Frequency Reconfiguration Agreement with Sprint Nextel."
4. Submit Change Notice, if necessary
As your planning and reconfiguration activities proceed in accordance with the work described in
your PFA or FRA, there may be a need for changes to the scope of such work. These changes may
occur at any point in the planning and reconfiguration process between the time that you execute
your TA-approved PFA or FRA with Sprint Nextel and the time that you reconcile your costs with
Sprint Nextel prior to the contract closing. Whenever a change to your PFA or FRA scope of work
is required, you will need to submit a Change Notice in accordance with the applicable terms of
your PFA or FRA, negotiate the Change Notice with Sprint Nextel, and submit it to the TA for review and approval.
For more information on the Change Notice, please visit the TA's website (http://www.800TA.org/content/documents/change_notice.asp).
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