tensorust/erate-cyber-pilot-share-sample

Schools Cybersecurity Pilot Vendor Share: free sample (Tensorust LLC)

$159.9M requested in the FCC Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot, split by security vendor, product type and state.

Headline: The FCC Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot is the first federal program paying K-12 schools and libraries for cybersecurity, and USAC publishes it only as thousands of free-text line items, so no vendor knows its share.

This repository is a free teaser, not the dataset. It holds 25 example rows and a summary table with no names in it. The full file has 1,697 rows and is sold by Tensorust LLC: https://tensorust.com/datasets/erate-cyber-pilot-share/.

Files here

file	what it is
sample.csv	25 rows of the full file (the same sample shown on tensorust.com)
summary_by_state.csv	row counts and totals by state across the full file, no entity names (groups with fewer than 3 rows are folded into "Other")

Summary by state (largest groups)

State	rows	Requested (USD)
CA	167	25,769,817
TX	166	31,979,990
NY	145	9,397,747
PA	139	6,030,321
IL	127	6,642,467
LA	69	4,938,004
AZ	65	1,804,396
GA	61	5,528,118
WA	58	2,444,381
OH	55	6,141,583
IN	49	4,458,634
CT	47	3,216,018
TOTAL	1,697	159,922,871

Full table: summary_by_state.csv.

What the full file has

• 1,697 rows
• Key fields: vendor, ticker, product_type, service_category, state, participant_type, urban_rural_status, requested_usd, line_items, participants
• Parquet and CSV, a README with sources, method and limits, and the build script
• Free 25-row sample (no personal contact data)

Coverage: Every current pilot Form 471 line item (3,798 lines) from 596 participants in 49 states and territories. USAC pilot Form 471 data as pulled for the Tensorust E-Rate tracker; built Nov 6 2026.

Columns in the full file

column	meaning
vendor	Product vendor normalized from the line item make and model, with ticker or private
ticker	Product vendor normalized from the line item make and model, with ticker or private
product_type	Line item type of equipment as filed
service_category	Pilot category of service
state	Aggregation keys (no participant names)
participant_type	Aggregation keys (no participant names)
urban_rural_status	Aggregation keys (no participant names)
requested_usd	Total eligible cost on pilot FCC Form 471 lines
line_items	Counts
participants	Counts
service_providers	Counts
share_of_pilot	Shares of total requested dollars
vendor_total_usd	Shares of total requested dollars
vendor_share_of_pilot	Shares of total requested dollars

Get the full file

tier	price	includes
Vendor view	$750	One vendor's pilot dollars by product type, state and participant type, against the top 10 competitors in each product type.
Full pilot share file	$1,900	All 1,697 rows across 563 vendors, CSV and Parquet, with the vendor normalization map.
Yearly pilot tracker	$6,000 a year	The file refreshed each quarter as USAC posts new Form 471 versions and commitments, with share changes by vendor and product type. Up to 5 users.

Email mattbusel@tensorust.com with the tier and a billing contact, and we will send a proper invoice (ACH or card). The file is delivered once the invoice is paid. Details and the live sample: https://tensorust.com/datasets/erate-cyber-pilot-share/. All datasets: https://tensorust.com/datasets/

Method and limits

Normalize the vendor from each line item's make and model with a keyword map of about 60 security vendors; unmatched makes are kept as written. Sum eligible one-time and recurring costs per line. Aggregate 3,798 current line items to vendor x product type x category x state x participant type x urban/rural, and compute shares of the total.

Not a lead list: no school or library names, and never sold as E-Rate vendor leads. Not revenue: requested dollars, before USAC review and invoicing. Vendor attribution comes from free-text make fields, and resellers sometimes list themselves as make.

Sources

• USAC Open Data, Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program FCC Form 471 line items (qr48-4kx4), current form versions: https://opendata.usac.org/resource/qr48-4kx4.json
• FCC Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program: https://www.fcc.gov/cybersecurity-pilot-program

License

The sample and summary here are free to view, analyze and cite with attribution to "Tensorust LLC, https://tensorust.com/datasets/erate-cyber-pilot-share/". The full dataset is licensed separately per tier. No resale or redistribution of Tensorust data without a written license.

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