Telecommunications services

Tender description

The contracts for each Lot are gap funded interventions to deliver access to Next Generation Access Broadband Infrastructure (capable of delivering speeds of at least 30 Mbps “NGA") to as many premises in Scotland as possible by the end of 2021. They build on the deployment of NGA Broadband Infrastructure that has been, and will be, realised through the 2 Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programmes (Highlands and Island and the Rest of Scotland), together with commercial deployment. Following these deployments there are around 178 948 premises eligible for intervention (“white premises”) which are in scope across these contacts. We have split these white premises into 3 geographical. Lots: — Lot 1: the North lot, — Lot 2: the Central lot, — Lot 3: the South lot. The split of white premises between these Lots and other additional information about the requirement can be found at II.2 and VI.3. This contract is a gap funded intervention to deliver access to NGA Broadband Infrastructure to as many premises in the relevant geographical area of Scotland (the “North Area”) as possible by the end of 2021. The North Area is broadly the Highlands and Islands, Angus, Aberdeen and Dundee (more particularly described and shown coloured green on the plan forming Annex 1 of the Initial Descriptive Document) and comprises approximately 99 288 White Premises. The invitation to participate in dialogue will contain a minimum requirement that some white premises must be served at gigabit speed by the bidder’s solution in each of a short list of named locations or areas in the more remote parts of the north lot. This will likely be expressed as a requirement that at least a specified percentage of white premises within an area (e.g. a postcode) are served as part of the Bidder's solution. It is expected that the list of required areas will contain between 5 and 10 places. This contract is a gap funded intervention to deliver access to NGA Broadband Infrastructure (capable of delivering speeds of at least 30 Mbps) to as many premises in the relevant geographical area of Scotland (the “Central Area”) as possible by the end of 2021. The Central Area is broadly central Scotland and Fife (more particularly described and shown coloured amber on the plan forming Annex 1 of the Initial Descriptive Document) and comprises approximately 53 570 White Premises. This contract is a gap funded intervention to deliver access to NGA Broadband Infrastructure (capable of delivering speeds of at least 30 Mbps) to as many premises in the relevant geographical area of Scotland (the “South Area”) as possible by the end of 2021. The South Area is broadly the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway (more particularly described and shown coloured purple on the plan forming Annex 1 of the Initial Descriptive Document) and comprises approximately 26 090 White Premises.