Telecommunications services

Tender description

Provision of Next Generation Broadband infrastructure and services to the Lunan Valley Community Broadband area covering the areas of Amurlee, Trochry, and the Lunan Valley the latter covering the localities of Butterstone, Forneth, Clunie and Craigie. The Lunan Valley Community Broadband project has initially been set up to facilitate the delivery of improved broadband services to residential and business premises within communities in the Lunan Valley area, and was later extended to the nearby areas of Amulree. The project is targeting areas not planned to benefit from commercial coverage or the publicly funded roll-outs through the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) programme. The Lunan Valley Community Broadband, a Community Interest Company (CIC) established under the Companies Act 2006, working in partnership with Community Broadband Scotland (CBS), a Scottish Government initiative led by Highlands and Islands Enterprise wishes to identify a supplier who can provide a Next Generation Access (NGA) State Aid compliant SA. 40720 (2016/N) infrastructure that will enable access to NGA services at greater than 30 Mbps to all premises in the project area (subject to any technical and funding constraints). The successful bidder will contract with Lunan Valley Community Broadband CIC. This contract will not be divided into lots as this would make the execution of the contract excessively technically difficult.