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Free templates: the three records every contract needs

What you pay, what you get, what fails. Working files a community fills in itself and keeps.

A connectivity contract is easier to hold to when three records exist: what every site pays and for what, what each building actually needs from the service, and every outage with its duration. Those records are the basis of a renewal negotiation, a service-credit claim, a report to council and, when a program opens, a funding application. These templates produce them. They are free, in English and French, and yours to keep; tribal councils and technical-services organizations may distribute them to their member communities.

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The three records

01Site and service inventory

Excel. One row per paid connection: provider, service, cost, contract term and renewal date. Totals what the community spends on connectivity and flags every contract ending within twelve months.

02Facility needs assessment

Excel. What each building actually needs from the service, the gap between need and what the contract delivers, and a priority for every site. Includes a sizing guide by facility type.

03Reliability and outage log

Excel. Every outage or slowdown, with its duration and the availability of every site over any period you set. The record behind a service-credit claim, a complaint or a renewal.

Also in the set

  • Provider vetting guideTwenty questions for any contract, with what a good and a weak answer sound like, and a scoring grid.
  • Provider information requestAn email to send when a contract cannot be found.
  • Council summaryA one-page template for a council meeting, filled from the three workbooks.
  • Site questionnaireOne page for the person who runs each building. Fifteen minutes each.
  • Speed test guideHow to measure what a site actually gets, against what the contract says: the evidence behind a claim.
  • Options briefingFor renewal time: fibre, cable, fixed wireless, cellular, satellite and microwave in plain language, with no vendor names.
  • Funding readiness checklistIf a program opens, what it will ask for and where each item comes from.
  • Worked example and field guidesThe three workbooks filled in for a fictional community of eight sites, and every column explained.

These templates are business documents, not legal advice or engineering design. Have independent counsel review anything you intend to sign.

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The inventory and the needs assessment are also the first two steps of the connectivity readiness assessment. Send them back filled in and the assessment starts from what you have already documented.

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