R100 — Procurement of NGA Infrastructure

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)).