Extending High Speed Broadband Framework Agreement

Description

The Welsh Government has undertaken 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.Grants made under the call-off contracts are out of scope for the purposes of VAT.Coverage The Authority’s 2022 open market review identified that around 84,000 premises within Wales did not have access to superfast d