Germany – IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support – NGA-Breitbandausbau-Schenklengsfeld

The subject of this tender is the commissioning of a company to construct and operate a demand-driven, sustainable, comprehensive, and expandable gigabit infrastructure in the "gap closure" area in the municipality of Schenklengsfeld. The gigabit-capable high-performance network to be constructed must ensure that the addresses designated for expansion in the expansion area are supplied with a bandwidth of at least 1 Gbit/s symmetrically (minimum bandwidth) under peak load conditions. The minimum bandwidth is achieved if it is provided at the termination point of the line technology in the building. The market survey conducted confirmed that the construction and operation of such a gigabit-capable high-performance network in the expansion area cannot be depicted on a commercial basis. For this reason, the granting authority is willing to provide the private telecommunications company with a one-time, non-repayable investment grant to cover its economic viability gap (so-called "economic viability gap model"). The granting authority has submitted a grant application within the federal funding programme "Promotion to support the gigabit expansion of telecommunications networks in the Federal Republic of Germany - Gigabit Directive 2.0" within the "gap closure programme" pursuant to No. 9.1 and has been granted final funding.