Official UK procurement notice
Accelerating Affordable Gigabit Fibre - Neutral Host Operator
Authority: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council aims to deliver a preeminent Gigabit connected region for its residents and businesses, and is seeking a Neutral Host Operator (NHO) to establish itself within the BCP area to help meet this goal. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council has developed a Smart Place Strategy with a clear focus on generating local value, helping to tackle key challenges across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council aims to deliver a preeminent Gigabit connected region for its residents and businesses, and is seeking a Neutral Host Operator (NHO) to establish itself within the BCP area to help meet this goal.
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council has developed a Smart Place Strategy with a clear focus on generating local value, helping to tackle key challenges across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Whether making it easier for people to go about their daily lives, improving the prospects of our local businesses or enabling communities to function more effectively, combining information, data and emerging digital technologies will deliver considerable benefits for our area.
One of the core underpinning technologies that will enable our Smart Place to become reality is Gigabit fibre deployed across the whole of the BCP region. Gigabit fibre is critical digital infrastructure, providing the connectivity backbone for many vital public, private and voluntary services and helping to power our businesses and local economy as well as supporting our Smart Place Programme. The provision of ubiquitous, high speed, affordable Gigabit connectivity is therefore now a priority for the Council.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Installation of telecommunications equipment · Postal and telecommunications services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The model the Council is seeking to implement aims to decouple the passive or physical…Published value£1
The model the Council is seeking to implement aims to decouple the passive or physical fibre infrastructure from the services delivered on it, creating a market for fibre ownership beyond telecom companies, and allowing a range of investors who are familiar with infrastructure and property investments, including the public sector to invest. It also lowers the barriers of entry to market for service providers. These service providers include providers of internet service (ISPs) and also those who require access to data networks in order to deliver a range of services: mobile phone (5G) operators, wireless ISPs, security & CCTV through to education and health services. Additional information: II.1.5 and II.2.6 The estimated revenue value is stated as £1, as the estimation is not know at this time and it will be negotiated as a Commercial in the Negotiation Phase.
II.2.7 the contract duration is stated as 120 months, however this will be subject to negotiation in the Timeline in the Negotiation Phase.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 90
- Price: 10
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Successive reduction
- Candidates will be reduced successively across stages
- Price carries 10 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1 point. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive procedure with negotiation
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 24 Mar 2022, 12:31 GMT
- Last source update
- 16 Dec 2022, 11:13 GMT
- Authority reference
DN603494- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-035638- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0325d0Find a Tender
- Review procedure
In accordance with Regulation 86 (notices of decisions to award a contract), Regulation 87
(standstill period) and Regulations 91 (enforcement of duties through the Court) of the
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended).
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 20 Jan 2023, 14:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
1 Sept 2022 → 20 Jan 2023 · 3 dates- Next notice expected1 Sept 2022, 00:00 BST
- Notice published16 Dec 2022, 11:13 GMT
- Submission deadline20 Jan 2023, 14:00 GMT
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Dec 2022- Status changed to active16 Dec 2022, 11:13 GMT
- Procurement method changed16 Dec 2022, 11:13 GMT
- Deadline published: 20 Jan 2023, 14:00 GMT16 Dec 2022, 11:13 GMT
- Buyer details updated16 Dec 2022, 11:13 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- High Courts of JusticeReview bodyReview contact point
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria