Field Operations and Maintenance Services Framework

Description

DMSL managed a tender on behalf of the mobile network operators (EE, Telefonica, Three and Vodafone, collectively the "Contracting Organisations") to appoint a supplier who is able to provide field operations and maintenance services for Mobile Telecoms Base Station Sites. Each of the Contracting Organisations is a signatory to the Field Operations and Maintenance Services Framework Agreement. Neither DMSL nor the Contracting Organisations are contracting authorities. This tender was conducted voluntarily under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR") as call offs awarded under the framework will be contracts subsidised by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) within the meaning of Regulation 13 of the PCR. The aim of the procurement was to appoint suppliers who are able to provide field operations and maintenance services to support mobile telecom base station sites that are funded under the Shared Rural Network ("SRN") programme. Call offs may be awarded by the MNOs or their build organisations.