{"id":44497,"date":"2026-01-21T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=44497"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:43:27","slug":"openreach-expands-scotlands-project-gigabit-broadband-rollout-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/openreach-expands-scotlands-project-gigabit-broadband-rollout-contract.html","title":{"rendered":"Openreach Expands Scotland’s Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Contract UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has issued a contract modification notice for Openreach<\/a>’s \u00a3157m (public subsidy) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract in Scotland (Call off 6), which originally aimed to reach 65,070 premises in remote rural areas. But the change means it will now be expanded to tackle 77,639 premises.<\/p>\n

The original contract was officially awarded back in May 2025 (here<\/a>) and formed part of Openreach<\/a>’s Single Supplier Framework<\/strong> agreement with the Builder Digital UK agency (here<\/a>), which saw them being chosen to deliver all of Project Gigabit\u2019s Cross-Regional (Type C<\/strong>) procurements. At the time this reflected \u201cup to<\/em>\u201d \u00a3800m <\/strong>in total state aid to help upgrade c.312,000 premises<\/strong> in rural areas of England, Scotland and Wales to full fibre (FTTP<\/a>) connectivity (the previous Type A [local] and Type B [regional] contracts have all gone to smaller providers).<\/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 89.6% of premises can already access such a network (here<\/a>), with Ofcom<\/a> forecasting between 91% and 97% by January 2028 (here<\/a>).<\/div>\n

However, back in August 2025 we reported that the government had boosted the value of the Single Supplier Framework to around \u00a31.2bn<\/strong> (here<\/a>), which meant that it was likely to be used to reach even more premises in Type C areas in the future.<\/p>\n

Just for context, Type C 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 contract that Openreach<\/a> secured for Scotland under this scheme was focused on upgrading remote rural parts of the Scottish Highlands (Applecross and Durness etc.), as well as several remote islands off the west coast of Scotland, including thousands of premises across the Outer Hebrides \u2013 a chain of over 100 islands where currently just 7% of premises can access gigabit broadband \u2013 as well as the isles of Skye, Islay and Tiree etc.<\/p>\n

The Contract Modification<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

According to the latest contract modification notice for Call off 6 (Rest of Scotland)<\/strong>: “The awarded contract value has increased by \u00a318,456,308 to \u00a3175,561,598 from the original value of \u00a3157,105,290. The awarded premises have increased (rescoped) by 12,569 to a total of 77,639 from the original 65,070<\/em>.” The notice confirms that this is as a result of “additional scope<\/em>” being added to the contract, following an agreement between BDUK and Openreach (note: the roll-out phase for call off 6 only began recently).<\/p>\n

At the time of writing the government have yet to update their public contract details page with the latest changes (here<\/a>), thus we’re unsure precisely where the extra 12,569 premises of gigabit broadband coverage will be delivered. But given the scale of this modification, we’d expect an announcement about it to surface in the not too distant future (smaller modifications happen all the time to other contracts and thus rarely warrant a mention).<\/p>\n

The work is designed to complement the Scottish Government<\/a>\u2019s own \u00a3600m R100<\/strong> programme, which is separately working with Openreach to reach another 113,000 premises<\/strong> in hard-to-reach rural locations by 2028 (the vast majority of this will get FTTP<\/a>) and they’ve technically already done 96,347 premises (here<\/a>). On top of that GoFibre<\/a> also hold a couple of Project Gigabit contracts for different parts of Scotland (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The responsibility for broadband in Scotland is reserved to Westminster, but that doesn\u2019t stop local and devolved authorities from making their own investments, which we\u2019ve previously seen via the R100 programme (Reaching 100% \u2013 superfast broadband coverage).<\/div>\n

UPDATE 22nd Jan 2026 @ 3:40pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Scottish Government<\/a> has revealed that Dumfries & Galloway will see the main benefit of this expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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