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The Government’s Building Digital UK<\/a> team has tweaked the eligibility rules for rural gigabit vouchers in order to balance against the issues caused when parts of the UK are placed under a Public Review as part of the \u00a35bn Project Gigabit<\/strong><\/a> programme, which can cause in-scope premises to suddenly become ineligible for vouchers.<\/p>\n

The Government are currently conducting a number of Public Reviews<\/strong> across parts of the UK (e.g. the Dorset example<\/a>), which essentially seeks to confirm which premises are planned (or can already) benefit from gigabit-capable broadband coverage as a result of commercial builds. In short, this helps to identify the poorly served rural areas that may be eligible for public subsidy – either via gigabit vouchers or a larger deployment contract.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Once a voucher is issued it remains valid for 12 months from the date of issue. Communities not in the first 3 years of Project Gigabit contract delivery are also now eligible for vouchers.<\/div>\n

However, the terms of the \u00a3210m UK Gigabit Voucher<\/a><\/strong> scheme (part of Project Gigabit), which offers up to \u00a33,500 for businesses and \u00a31,500 for homes to help them get a gigabit-capable connection installed, state that when an area goes into Public Review premises in-scope become ineligible for vouchers.<\/p>\n

The rule makes sense as the Government doesn’t want to invest public money where it isn’t needed, but at the same time this does tend to create problems for voucher projects, such as those that may already be in-progress (e.g. increased risk of some vouchers being rejected or suffering from delayed approval). But a new update from BDUK, which has been seen by ISPreview.co.uk, suggests that they’ve recognised this concern and made a change.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> BDUK now apply tighter checks on voucher project proposals submitted between the start of the Public Review and the final pre-procurement stage. Proposals submitted in this period must be robust, fast-paced and likely to deliver faster than any potential procurement solution.<\/div>\n

Update on Gigabit Voucher Terms (BDUK)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to balance the need to provide stable intervention areas for Project Gigabit procurements with safeguarding voucher projects in advanced development, suppliers will now be able to request vouchers up to six weeks before procurement formally starts.<\/p>\n

To provide time for suppliers and communities to apply to the scheme, Building Digital UK<\/a> will provide at least three month\u2019s notice of future Public Reviews and procurement start dates.<\/p>\n

For areas due to start procurement before October, there is a slightly different approach but one that still gives a minimum three-months\u2019 notice. For these areas outlined below, the facility to request vouchers will no longer be available from 5pm on Friday 24th September 2021.<\/p>\n

— Cambridgeshire
\n— Cumbria
\n— Dorset ^
\n— Durham
\n— Essex ^
\n— Northumberland<\/p>\n

^ For Essex and Dorset only: The window will close after this date for the areas of Essex and Dorset that will be going into procurement for a Local Supplier contract. For the remaining areas of these counties the situation will revert back to normal until any subsequent procurement activity begins.<\/em><\/p>\n

Suppliers should factor BDUK\u2019s project review process into their planning, ensuring that projects are submitted with complete applications, including all relevant and correct information. There is no guarantee a project will be published in time to request vouchers. Suppliers are encouraged to submit their projects as soon as they can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Admittedly, Public Reviews aren’t the only area causing some disruption for the voucher scheme. Despite being a positive development, Openreach<\/a>’s recent decision (here<\/a>) to extend their rural FTTP<\/a> rollout to reach 6.2 million UK premises by December 2026 has also disrupted a number of voucher projects (i.e. those that might have delivered a similar service, albeit much sooner, in the same areas). Some ISPs thus feel as if their commitment and effort has been undermined.<\/p>\n

On top of that, we continue to hear occasional reports from ISPs that have been left waiting months for their voucher projects to receive approval (it should normally be a lot quicker), although the feedback has been sporadic and so it’s currently hard to tell whether these are isolated cases at specific operators or signs of a wider problem. As one provider told us, “they’re still trying to cope with the avalanche of projects submitted back in February, at the closing of the old scheme<\/em>” (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A DCMS Spokesperson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This is not about any backlog from the previous scheme and no premises in need will miss out on getting connected through either a voucher or Project Gigabit contract.<\/p>\n

Previously, voucher requests in areas going through public review were paused so that the premises to be connected through contracts could be identified.<\/p>\n

In recognition of Project Gigabit’s fast pace, we are allowing voucher requests to be submitted during public review and up to six weeks before procurement begins as well as giving three months\u2019 notice when an area is entering public review.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, this sort of disruption was perhaps inevitable. The new voucher scheme inhabits much the same space and focus as the gap funded side of Project Gigabit. Between that, the new commercial builds and recent rule changes (e.g. restricting the focus to Area 3), it can be difficult for smaller ISPs to find the necessary stability to secure their voucher plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Government’s Building Digital UK team has tweaked the eligibility rules for rural gigabit vouchers in order to balance against the issues caused when parts of the UK are placed under a Public Review as part of the \u00a35bn Project Gigabit programme, which can cause in-scope premises to suddenly become ineligible for vouchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,56,414,38,1997,89,71],"class_list":["post-27528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-fttp","tag-northern-ireland","tag-politics","tag-uk-gigabit-programme","tag-scotland","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nBDUK Tweak Gigabit Broadband Voucher Rules Around Eligibility - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Government's Building Digital UK team has tweaked the eligibility rules for rural gigabit vouchers in order to balance against the issues caused when\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/07\/bduk-tweak-gigabit-broadband-voucher-rules-around-eligibility.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BDUK Tweak Gigabit Broadband Voucher Rules Around Eligibility - 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