Extending High Speed Broadband in Wales Tender, United Kingdom - 118263430

Procurement Summary

Country : United Kingdom

Summary : Extending High Speed Broadband in Wales

Deadline : 05 May 2025

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 118263430

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Financier : Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership : Public

Tender Value : GBP 84000000

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Procurement: The Welsh Government is conducting a procurement to establish a framework (the "Framework") to deliver the Extending High Speed Broadband project (the "Project"). Once the Framework is established, the Authority intends to award a series of call-off contracts (following individual competitive selection processes), that will provide grant funding to telecoms suppliers to cover the "gap" in costs that are required to deliver superfast connections to communities / premises in Wales that would not otherwise be served by commercial operators under normal market conditions, due to the high infrastructure cost of building connections to those "hard to reach" communities / premises. Coverage: Following a recent review, the Welsh Government has identified that around 84, 000 premises within Wales do not have access to superfast download speeds (at least 30Mbps) exacerbating the digital divide. Ofcom has previously stated that a subset of these (around 10, 000 premises) do not yet have access to at least 10Mbps. While there are existing interventions scheduled by the telecommunications industry and UK Government public funded interventions, the remote and hard-to-reach areas that have been identified are unlikely to be addressed commercially and it is not certain that they will be addressed by further publicly funded interventions. The number of premises that are anticipated to be in scope for the Framework will be provided as part of the associated tender documents, but thi...

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