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ClosedStage · tender

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Open RAN Equipment - UK Telecoms Lab

Communications EquipmentCPV 32000000
Value£1.9m
Deadline17 Feb 2023
Published17 Jan 2023
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 17 Jan 2023ClosedCloses 17 Feb 2023
Who to contact
DCMS Commercial
commercial@dcms.gov.uk
+44 2072116000

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£1.9mtotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£2.9m

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The brief

DCMS intends to acquire at least one End-to-End Open RAN solution (with the option to acquire a second End-to-End Open-RAN solution from a different vendor) for security and interoperability testing and research in the UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL) during early 2023.

The UKTL is a recently announced national flagship telecoms testing capability, which will be operated by the National Physical Laboratory on behalf of DCMS.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03981b
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
001386-2023
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