BDUK Update Figures for Openreach’s Project Gigabit Broadband Contracts
The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has updated the latest contract values and contracted premises figures for their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contracts with Openreach (BT), which takes account of recent changes to show that all of the contracts combined are now worth £850m and will bring FTTP to around 358,000 premises.
The eight contracts all form part of Openreach’s wider Single Supplier Framework deal – now valued at up to c.£1.2bn, which are focused on Cross-Regional (Type C) procurements (no other suppliers tackle Type C). Type C typically reflects remote areas where no or no appropriate market interest has previously been expressed before to BDUK, or areas that have been descoped or terminated from a prior procurement (examples here, here, here and here).
Openreach have, over the past few months, absorbed several previously failed Project Gigabit contracts with different suppliers, and we’re expecting this to grow in the near future as a number of other Project Gigabit contracts have since hit troubled times (e.g. CityFibre’s £58.6m contract for Nottinghamshire and West Lincolnshire – Lot 10 – here).
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Otherwise, BDUK’s latest summary below shows the most recent figures for Openreach’s Project Gigabit contracts and we’ve also included the latest July 2026 build progress for added context. Just remember that contract modifications occur all the time, which may expand or shrink the scope of each deployment as situations change, so you can never be 100% sure what the final picture will be until each contract is completed.
| Procurement name | Contract value | Contracted premises | Contract signature date | Built Premises under Contract (Jul 2026) |
| Call-Off 1 – Lancashire, West Berkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire | £159.3m | 60,180 | 28/06/2024 | 17,170 |
| Call-Off 2 – Devon, Mid Wales and South East Wales | £137.3m | 41,140 | 28/06/2024 | 10,600 |
| Call-Off 3 – North Herefordshire, North Wales, Shropshire and South West Wales | £150.6m | 65,120 | 19/12/2024 | 2,570 |
| Call-Off 4 – South Devon, Mid Devon and North Somerset | £77.1m | 37,110 | 19/12/2024 | 3,840 |
| Call-Off 5 – Essex and North East England | £70.3m | 35,300 | 19/12/2024 | 2,260 |
| Call-Off 6 – Rest of Scotland | £175.6m | 77,640 | 15/04/2025 | 5,680 |
| Call-Off 7 – Worcestershire | £42.4m | 22,980 | 19/12/2024 | 1,010 |
| Call-Off 8 – Cheshire | £37.5m | 18,460 | 26/02/2026 | 0 |
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about £2-3k per premise. Why should a big country house get this subsidy?
Obviously not everyone in Rural areas lives in Big country houses. In this area of Rural Gloucestershire Gigaclear, the only FTTP provider passes many modest dwelllings & businesses. BT is still sweating it’s Copper assets here, and has no plans to install FTTP. Without BDUK subsidies, there would be little to no options for normal people here…
Why not?
Because of where they’re located very many of those ‘big country houses’ already have FTTP – BT had no hope of meeting the USO with FTTC, so we ended up in a situation where those that were distant from the exchanges (like those with large estates) getting FTTP and the local houses in small/medium villages being left with FTTC.
Not saying that no big country houses will get the money, they will, but the bulk seems to be in small villages.