{"id":43413,"date":"2025-10-10T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=43413"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:53:25","slug":"bduk-switch-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-mid-west-shropshire-to-openreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/10\/bduk-switch-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-mid-west-shropshire-to-openreach.html","title":{"rendered":"BDUK Switch Gigabit Broadband Contract for Mid West Shropshire to Openreach UPDATE2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Government’s Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) agency has just announced that their Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Mid West Shropshire (Lot 25.01), which was originally held by Voneus<\/a> until they \u201cmutually agreed to terminate<\/em>\u201d it at the end of 2024 (here<\/a>), has now been merged into Openreach<\/a>’s (BT<\/a>) existing call-off 3 deployment contract.<\/p>\n

Just to recap. The Lot 25.01 contract for Mid West Shropshire (England) was originally valued at \u00a312m (state aid) and aimed to extend gigabit-capable broadband connectivity to cover 6,000 premises in hard to reach areas, including Alberbury, Westbury, Snailbeach, Wentnor, Ford, Hanwood, Longden, Dorrington, Leebotwood and Bicton. But this was sent into limbo after the contracted supplier, Voneus<\/a>, pulled out just as the build phase was supposed to start.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Project Gigabit aims to help extend gigabit broadband (1000Mbps+) ISP networks to \u201cnationwide<\/em>\u201d coverage (c.99% of UK premises) by 2032, focusing mostly on the final 10-20% in hard-to-reach areas. Some 88% of premises can already access such a network (here<\/a>), with Ofcom<\/a> forecasting 97-98% for May 2027 (here<\/a>).<\/div>\n

The big news today is that BDUK has reached an agreement with Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) to include the Mid West Shropshire deployment into their existing Single Supplier Framework<\/strong> agreement (here<\/a>), which is focused on Cross-Regional (Type C) procurements. This reflects remote areas where no or no appropriate market interest had previously been expressed before to BDUK, or areas that have been descoped or terminated from a prior procurement. Such areas are often skipped due to being too expensive (difficult) for smaller suppliers to tackle.<\/p>\n

The plan for Lot 25.01 has thus effectively been merged into Openreach<\/a>’s existing Type C (Call Off 3) contract and you can see the impact of this below.<\/p>\n

Openreach’s Type C Contract Change (Call-Off 3)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Original:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Type C (Call Off 3): East and South Shropshire, North Herefordshire, North Wales, and South West Wales<\/strong><\/em>
\nPremises: 47,000
\nFinal Value: \u00a3108.94m<\/p>\n

Revised:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Type C (Call Off 3): East, South and Mid West Shropshire, North Herefordshire, North Wales, and South West Wales<\/strong><\/em>
\nPremises: 52,000
\nFinal Value: \u00a3119.3m<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ve asked Openreach if they’re able to comment on this change and will report back later, although the move always seemed like a possibility given the focus of Type C areas and Openreach as a logical fallback. Speaking of which, a number of other alternative networks have pulled out of their Project Gigabit contracts (e.g. Freedom Fibre<\/a> in Cheshire and FullFibre Ltd in West Herefordshire and the Forest of Dean + Peak District), which could potentially take the same approach in the future.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 1:04pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Openreach has kindly provided the following comment.<\/p>\n

An Openreach spokesperson said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We welcome this decision which reflects the nature of our agreement under the government’s Project Gigabit programme, which was designed to make sure full fibre upgrades continue in areas where previous contracts haven’t progressed.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re ready to step in and we look forward to working with the government and the local community to bring future-proof connectivity to more people, more quickly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE 3:50pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some more specific details have been released as part of the related contract modification. In short, the awarded contract value has increased by \u00a310,355,308 to \u00a3119,292,552 from the original value of \u00a3108,937,244. The awarded premises have increased (re-scoped) by 4,826 to a total of 52,059 from the original 47,233.<\/p>\n

We suspect some of these changes may also be reflecting differences in the expected impact due to Openreach’s existing network and recent commercial deployments, which may explain why the roll-out change is not closer to c.6,000 premises like the original contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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