Making all Number Portability Administration Center bid documents...

Making all Number Portability Administration Center bid documents publicly available “would be extremely anticompetitive if re-bidding on this contract were to occur in the future,” Telcordia wrote Friday in response to a question from the FCC Wireline Bureau. “Any public release of Telcordia’s confidential and proprietary technical, pricing, and operational information, by or at the direction of the Commission, would be contrary to the Trade Secrets Act,” Telcordia said. Telcordia, an Ericsson subsidiary, is competing for the Local Number Portability Administrator contract, which Neustar has for sure only until its contract expires next year. “Neustar, of course, offers to make its bid public -- it has concluded that its bid was uncompetitive anyway, meaning that public release of bids will only benefit Neustar, while causing maximum harm to Telcordia. All along, Neustar has been trying to determine how large of an incumbency premium it could seek and still retain the LNPA contract -- and its actions show that it believes its bid miscalculated the premium it could demand and was therefore too high. It would destroy the competitive process if Neustar were now given Telcordia’s proprietary pricing, and an opportunity to revamp its bid using that trade secret information."