📋 Tender Overview
The Central Finance and Contracting Agency (CFLA) has extended the application for funding from the Recovery Fund (AF) for the development of broadband infrastructure, according to the information in the official gazette Latvijas V?stnesis.
The application deadline has been extended to 10 April 2024. Electronic communications merchants are invited to apply for funding. Initially, the acceptance of project applications was scheduled until February 26 of this year.
An investment of 16.5 million is available from AF for broadband or "last mile" infrastructure development of very high capacity networks.
Electronic communications merchants who have the right to provide electronic communications services and ensure an electronic communications network in Latvia and who have ensured the establishment of an electronic communications network in at least 300 objects during the previous three years may apply for financing in the AF programme developed by the Ministry of Transport.
AF support will be able to be used to provide the development of the very high capacity network passive infrastructure and the active infrastructure of the high-capacity network, design and testing costs, as well as other related expenses.
The investment aims to create an electronic communications infrastructure capable of providing internet services with data rates of at least 300 megabits per second to households, businesses, educational and medical institutions, as well as public buildings throughout the country, by establishing technology-neutral connections that support sustainable next-generation fixed and fixed wireless network connectivity.
The available AF funding is €16,500,000: €3,300,000 is earmarked for investments in each planning region. The project should be completed by the end of June 2026. The project selection documentation is published on the CFLA website cfla.gov.lv.
The AF support for the implementation of the project is foreseen within the framework of the 2.4 reforms of the Latvian Recovery and Resilience Facility Plan and the investment direction "Transformation of digital infrastructure" 2.4.1.2.i. investments "Development of broadband or very high capacity network "last mile" infrastructure".
