Decision details
Contract Award to Airband following a Negotiated Procedure to deliver full fibre broadband to 4 Clusters in the Forest of Dean
Decision Maker: Assistant director Corporate Support (Historic)
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
The Fastershire project works across Herefordshire and
Gloucestershire to commission a broadband network where commercial
providers will not invest. Capital funding is provided by
Herefordshire Council, Gloucestershire County Council, national
Government via BDUK and other sources - in this instance The
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
Herefordshire Council is the lead authority for Fastershire and as
such, manages all of the procurement activity for the project
wherever that activity is targeted across the project area.
The “Fastershire Procurement Outcome for European
Agricultural Development Fund” decision of 23/7/2018 laid the
foundations for a contract that was awarded to Voneus in November
2018 valued at £712,000 (with a change tolerance up to
£940,20 to increase coverage) to deliver 5 clusters in
Gloucestershire.
Voneus withdrew from the contract, electing to fund themselves the
clusters they won commercially rather than using the available
subsidy. Based on legal and commercial advice the funds deemed for
Voneus could be reused to reach more premises in the outlined
intervention area that were not bid for during the original
procurement.
Airband submitted a tender for 4 of the Gloucestershire clusters
(G5, G6, G7 and C3 in the Forest of Dean). The submission has
passed all of the minimum thresholds and scored 54.63%.
Contact: Natalia Silver, Service Director - Corporate Services Email: nsilver@herefordshire.gov.uk Tel: 01432260732.
Publication date: 21/09/2020
Date of decision: 21/09/2020
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