Telecommunications services

Tender description

The Superfast Leicestershire project is working to extend the availability of Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband across the county of Leicestershire. To this end, Leicestershire County Council has previously invested public funds through three contracts (Phase 1, 2 and 3), to extend the availability of NGA infrastructure in areas where no commercial plans were available from market players as verified through State Aid Public Consultations to almost 97 % of premises in the county. The County Council intends to run a new procurement to secure a telecom provider(s) to deploy Next Generation Access solutions — those capable of achieving a minimum of 30 Mbps download speed — for the remaining areas in scope for NGA deployment. Further information regarding the tender is available in the data room. The procurement will follow an open procedure and with the contract expected to be awarded in Autumn 2020. East Leicestershire — to secure a telecom provider(s) to deploy Next Generation Access solutions — those capable of achieving a minimum of 30 Mbps download speed for the remaining areas in scope for NGA deployment in an area encompassing the entirety of the districts of Harborough, Melton, Oadby and Wigston, as well as parts of Charnwood and Blaby. It contains 149 854 premises and includes 5 928 target White premises for the purpose of this procurement.