Helping the procurement process for rolling out broadband
A framework of broadband service providers is being developed
A list of approved broadband suppliers will be selected to help simplify the procurement process as part of rolling out broadband to rural areas.
皇冠体育app Framework Agreement will be aimed at local authorities and Devolved Administrations allowing them to select suppliers from the pre-qualified list through 鈥榗all-off鈥� contracts, rather than run independent procurement processes from scratch for their own areas.
Once in place, use of the will provide significant savings in terms of time and costs compared to multiple independent procurement processes for both the public sector and suppliers.
For suppliers this will mean only having to bid once to be selected for the Framework, rather than up to 40 times for individual broadband procurement processes across the UK. A set of (PDF 402kb)聽has been published for suppliers interested in bidding.
皇冠体育app Framework supports the overall network in Europe by 2015, whilst providing everyone in the UK with access to broadband speeds of at least 2Mbps and superfast broadband for 90% of people in each local authority.