Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd) SME
- Value
- £33,444,000
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure
- Sector
- Telecoms equipment · Telecommunications network (CPV 32412100)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 015286-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Dec 2023
- Published14 May 2024Published 154 days after the contract date
Description
BDUK intends to award a number of Regional Supplier Contracts over the life of the Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Programme. The UK Government has confirmed that approximately £5 billion will be allocated to target the final 20% (f20), the hardest to reach parts of the UK. BDUK will be targeting its market intervention in these areas of the UK via a programme to subsidise the design, build and operation of gigabit-capable Supplier networks providing long-term, sustainable availability of wholesale gigabit broadband services in the hardest to reach parts of the UK.<br/><br/>The Regional Supplier Contracts are intended to be for larger numbers of premises than those covered under contracts placed under the Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Dynamic Purchasing System: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013574-2021?origin=SearchResults&p=1<br/><br/>The focus of the Regional Supplier Contracts is to target the build of gigabit-capable broadband infrastructure in the final 20% (f20) …
About the supplier
Connect Fibre (Fibre Assets Ltd): every public contract they have won.