Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Carmarthenshire County Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- BT PLC
- Value
- £9,867,370
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure
- Sector
- Telecoms equipment · Telecommunications network (CPV 32412100)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 043959-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Apr 2025
- Published29 Jul 2025Published 105 days after the contract date
Description
This is a contract award notice. The Swansea Bay City Deal’s (SBCD) Digital Infrastructure Programme, led by Carmarthenshire County Council (“Buyer”) is seeking the design, construction, and operation of a broadband network (“Better Broadband Infill Project”) which provides, as a minimum affordable gigabit connectivity (≥1,000Mbps) to eligible premises in the Swansea Bay City Region (Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, and Neath Port Talbot) in order to address areas where market failure persists and which have been identified through data analysis as having poor broadband speeds (<30Mbps).
About the supplier
BT PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01800000).