This RFP is for identifying an appropriate vendor(s) to provide outside plant engineering and an environmental assessment relating to the construction of middle-mile fiber infrastructure and direct-fiber connections to community colleges, libraries, schools, health and safety facilities, and other community anchor institutions (CAIs). The GLRBI bridges the prosperity gap by delivering broadband infrastructure to much of rural North Carolina and by building both middle-mile infrastructure and direct connections to CAIs in the rural northeastern (east of Henderson and Rocky Mount), northwestern (Asheville to Boone), north central (east of Sparta to Henderson), south central (Charlotte to Wilmington), and Graham County portions of North Carolina.