Ferns Group Join Openreach as Key Supplier in South of England

The Ferns Group, which is a Kent-based civil engineering firm that specialises in reinstatement works, has become the latest such company to sign a major £50m+ network services agreement with Openreach (there are actually several contracts involved). The deal mostly covers the South of England and may lead to bigger things.

The contracts will run for the next five years (3-year contract with 2-year extension) and see Ferns deliver various safety programmes, civil works, poling and complex manhole construction, including planned and reactive maintenance services, across the UK. But most of the work is focused on the South of England and locations like Bristol, Wiltshire and Dorset.

According to the Construction Enquirer, if all goes well, then Ferns may soon also be in a position to tender for a role in Openreach’s major national rollout of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP lines (2023/24 framework).

Harry Fern, Ferns Group Manager, said:

“The hard work we have done over the last 12 months is ensuring we have been able to become a key part of Openreach’s Tier 1 supplier network, securing these new contracts is in part contributing to our wider group growth strategy.”

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