CAT board's proposal for a 5-year renewal of its management of Fayetteville's cable-access television station rejected because it was turned in one minute late

Jim Bemis forwarded the following email:

The City has rejected the proposal turned in by Community Access Television due to the proposal being submitted after the deadline. The City will issue a revised RFP for a provider for public access television services in the near future. Hopefully we will be able to re-issue the RFP this week or next week. I apologize for my delayed response.

Best,
Andrea

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Andrea Foren, CPPB
City of Fayetteville, Purchasing Agent
113 W. Mountain
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-8220
TDD (Telecommunications
Device for the Deaf): (479) 521-1316
aforen@ci.fayetteville.ar.us
www.accessfayetteville.org

In a phone call Wednesday morning, Ms. Foren confirmed her email to Mr. Bemis. She said that her office clock is get on the atomic clock system.

Interestingly, my home computer seems to show "atomic clock time" while television broadcasts through Cox Cable appear to use a system about 6 to 9 minutes later.
Maybe the CAT representative who delivered the RFP to the city purchasing office was walking over on television time.