Telecommunications services

Tender description

This procurement is a gap funded government intervention to extend high speed broadband access and future-proofed digital infrastructure as far as possible into Scotland's remoter areas. The contracts for each lot will deliver access to next generation access broadband infrastructure (capable of delivering speeds of at least 30Mbps ‘NGA’). They build on the deployment of NGA Broadband infrastructure that has been realised through the two Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programmes (Highlands and Island and the Rest of Scotland), together with commercial deployment. Deployment is split into 3 geographical lots: Lot 1: the North lot, Lot 2: the Central lot, Lot 3: the South lot. This contract award notice is for Lot 1. The contract award notice for Lot 2 and Lot 3 was published on 16 January 2020 (OJEU reference 22158-2020 (2020/S 011-022158)). 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. The North Area is broadly the Highlands and Islands, Angus, Aberdeen and Dundee. 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. The Central Area is broadly central Scotland and Fife. 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. The South Area is broadly the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway.