{"id":48466,"date":"2026-10-19T09:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=48466"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:32:01","slug":"openreach-take-on-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-forest-of-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/openreach-take-on-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-forest-of-dean.html","title":{"rendered":"Openreach take on UK Project Gigabit broadband contract for Forest of Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) unit has today confirmed that the second part of the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for West Herefordshire and the Forest of Dean (Lot 15), which was originally held by FullFibre Ltd until they \u201c<em>mutually agreed to terminate<\/em>\u201d it in May 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/fullfibre-limited-drops-out-of-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contracts.html\">here<\/a>), has now been taken on by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just to recap. The contract was originally valued at <strong>\u00a323.4m<\/strong> (public subsidy) and aimed to extend gigabit-capable broadband connectivity to cover 7,900 premises in hard-to-reach areas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/gov-awards-six-new-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-build-contracts.html\">here<\/a>). But this was sent into limbo after the contracted supplier pulled out just as the build phase was supposed to start.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong>&nbsp;Project Gigabit aims to help extend gigabit broadband (1000Mbps+) ISP networks to \u201c<em>nationwide<\/em>\u201d coverage (c.99% of UK premises) by 2032, focusing mostly on the final 10-20% in hard-to-reach areas. Some 91% of premises can already access such a network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/gigabit-broadband-coverage-tops-percent-of-the-uk-in-h1-2026.html\">here<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> are forecasting this could reach up to 95% by January 2029 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/ofcom-predict-95-percent-of-uk-covered-by-gigabit-broadband-by-jan-2029.html\">here<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>At the time a spokesperson for BDUK told ISPreview that they were \u201c<em>now moving swiftly to put in place alternative plans with other suppliers to connect premises that were due to be covered by this contract<\/em>\u201c. Since then we&#8217;ve already seen the<strong> West Herefordshire<\/strong> part of LOT 15 being picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> in April 2026 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/openreach-take-on-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contract-for-west-herefordshire.html\">here<\/a>) and today sees the <strong>Forest of Dean<\/strong> (Gloucestershire) side going the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the prior contract change, the Forest of Dean build area has now been included into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>&#8217;s existing <strong>Call-off 3<\/strong> contract under their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/08\/openreach-to-win-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-contracts-and-help-312k-premises.html\"><strong>Single Supplier Framework<\/strong><\/a> agreement \u2013 now potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/govt-boosts-openreachs-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-framework-to-2-346bn.html\">valued at c.\u00a32.346bn<\/a>, which is focused on <strong>Cross-Regional (Type C)<\/strong> procurements. This helps to explain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/govt-expand-two-of-openreachs-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-roll-out-contracts.html\">last week&#8217;s announcement<\/a> of an expansion to call-off 3, which saw the contract value increase by \u00a37.97m with the addition of 3,616 premises.<\/p>\n<p>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 de-scoped or terminated from a prior procurement. Such areas are often skipped due to being too expensive (difficult) for smaller suppliers to tackle. Openreach have already taken on deployments for other contracts that fell into similar difficulties with different altnets and so today&#8217;s outcome is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing there\u2019s not a lot of detail, with BDUK simply saying: &#8220;<em>In September 2026 BDUK agreed a contract change with Openreach to include the Forest of Dean area within the existing Project Gigabit contract (call-off three)<\/em>.&#8221; Last week&#8217;s update was bigger than this and also included an expansion to Openreach&#8217;s <strong>Call-off 8 (Cheshire)<\/strong> contract, so more updates like this are expected to follow very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government&#8217;s Building Digital UK (BDUK) unit has today confirmed that the second part of the previously stalled Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for West Herefordshire and the Forest of Dean (Lot 15), which was originally held by FullFibre Ltd until they \u201cmutually agreed to terminate\u201d it in May 2025 (here), has now been taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,56,451,69,38,1997],"class_list":["post-48466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-fttp","tag-gloucestershire","tag-bt-openreach","tag-politics","tag-uk-gigabit-programme"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/117466649294734187","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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