Greater Manchester Gigabit Dark Fibre Networks

Tender description

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), invites suitably capable infrastructure providers to attend a market engagement event. The GMCA is exploring options for the installation and maintenance of full fibre network (layer 1) circuits allowing for a minimum of 1Gbps (gigabits per second) connectivity to public sector sites across the Greater Manchester City Region. The event will assist Greater Manchester in developing the business case, with a view to undertaking a procurement exercise later this year, should a viable business case be identified. The GMCA reserves the right not to proceed with a procurement exercise if a viable proposition is not identified. The Supplier Market Engagement Event for the provision of Gigabit Dark Fibre Networks in Greater Manchester will take place before the end of April 2018. Interested bidders need to confirm their interest via the CHEST portal before 23:30 on Thursday 15th March. Please note that a Prior information notice without call for competition (ref; 2018/S 024-050113) was issued on the 3/2/2018 in relation to this opportunity Keywords: Full Fibre, Gigabit, Dark Fibre, Digital Infrastructure