Superfast, ultrafast and gigabit capable broadband infrastructure - Open Market Review: request for information - January 2025

4. Purpose of this National Rolling Open Market Review Request for Information

We are launching this OMR RFI to establish existing and planned coverage of broadband services within Scotland over the next three years. We seek responses from broadband infrastructure suppliers that operate, or are planning to operate, within Scotland over the next three years.

The results of the OMR will assist us with understanding the broadband infrastructure (whether superfast, ultrafast or gigabit-capable) already in place and where there are plans for investment in such infrastructure in the forthcoming three years. This RFI will enable us to continue to design and make iterative updates to the areas to be targeted by public interventions at our discretion. This OMR process will be used by the Scottish Government in any subsequent formal PRs.

The Scottish Government applies a best practice approach that includes an OMR and a PR. Supplier submissions will be used to inform eligibility across Project Gigabit, the R100 Programme and other public interventions.

We will request and then evaluate the suppliers’ responses. During the evaluation exercise, we may engage with suppliers further to discuss and confirm their coverage claims.

Following this, we will be able to determine the eligibility of the premises for government subsidy. Below shows a summary of how the OMR process works:

Open Market Review Process

Where the Scottish Government receives new data for UPRNs which have been the subject of a previous PR determination, if it meets the evidential requirements, we may use this OMR outcome to update the previous PR determinations at our own discretion. This will be supported by an updated PR Report.