Broadband infrastructure in Scotland: public review

7. Participating / Responding to this Public Review

The Scottish Government’s goal is to ensure the parts of the country that need public investment are accurately targeted. Each contributor to this PR will help to optimise the use of public subsidy in helping to provide faster and better connectivity across all parts of Scotland.

Please respond if you have information to contribute to this data validation process or can provide your views about the accuracy of data and mapped areas by reporting where premises have existing or planned gigabit-capable broadband coverage. If you are a supplier and did not respond to the recent rolling OMR and have existing or planned network coverage, please submit your plans so that public subsidy can be targeted more accurately and over-building commercial infrastructure can be avoided. Where suppliers have credible plans that extend beyond the three-year horizon then these should be included in your submission. All planned build should be supported with detailed evidence as set out in the Submission Requirements section of this RFI.

Please note that the information you provide in your response will be treated as confidential, albeit that it may be necessary to share some/all of your response with our professional advisors and/or UK Government agencies, Ofcom and UK Government Subsidy Control team.

Responses from residents, businesses and other stakeholders

For residents and businesses, responses should relate to whether you have, or expect to have gigabit-capable broadband service coverage in the next three years (and beyond). Any information provided in response to this PR should as a minimum include (but need not be limited to) the UPRN, or the area (i.e. Postcode) that the submission relates to and the nature of the concern.

For all submissions, we would be grateful if you could confirm the following:

• Your organisation’s name (if applicable)
• Your organisation, or residential address (if applicable)
• Your name
• Position
• Contact telephone number
• Email Address

Members of the public and other respondents should follow the above format and email their submissions to gigabitomr@gov.scot

Responses from suppliers

The Scottish Government requests information and supporting evidence from suppliers in relation to the presence of broadband infrastructure within the project area. We wish to hear from all internet service providers and broadband infrastructure operators - particularly in relation to the proposed mapped eligible areas shown with the Annex D map and associated postcode list.

Please tell us about your:

• Broadband infrastructure - existing;
• Plans for developing / improving broadband infrastructure;
• Interest in bidding for projects and capability to scale.

For suppliers wishing to provide a coverage response to this PR please see the below sections, ‘Making a Data Response’ and ‘Submission Requirements’.

Specific feedback on the procurement approaches can be supplied to the procurement team via gigabitomr@gov.scot where you may, for example, want to tell us separately about your capacity to make a bid.