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

7. Commercial process for Project Gigabit Interventions

An appropriate amount of public funding will be budgeted from the Programme for each intervention, at the procurement stage. The budget will be specified within the relevant procurement documentation following the PR. Details of any restrictions on the use of public subsidy will be explained in the tender documentation. It is the intention to procure gigabit-capable solutions – those capable of achieving a minimum of 1Gbps download speed - for the identified areas in scope for gigabit-capable deployment.

Suppliers have the opportunity, during the OMR and PR processes, to share with the Scottish Government any firm and credible investment plans that may mean that public subsidy will not be warranted. It will be important for this OMR and the PR to establish these plans. Please see Annex C for guidance on how supporting evidence is used to assess coverage.

Please note that final IAs may be a subset of the premises classified as White in the subsidy assessment and will be subject to overlays, including other active/planned public interventions (e.g. the R100 Programme and other Project Gigabit interventions).

For further guidance on how the Scottish Government determines our IAs for subsidy, please refer to Section 6 ‘Determining Intervention Areas’ of the Open Market Review (OMR) and Public Review (PR) - Subsidy Control Classification Guidance.^[7]