📋 Tender Overview
In Olecko, Minister Janusz Cieszy?ski announced a new call for applications for co-financing the construction of a high-speed Internet network, this time under the European Funds for Digital Development Program 2021-2027. "Currently, as part of the new financial perspective for 2021-2027, we have launched the largest competition in history, thanks to which over 1.6 million white spots will be provided with access to fast Internet with a capacity of at least 300 Mb/s," said the minister.
On September 18, we launched the call for applications under the measure Increasing access to ultra-fast broadband Internet in the European Funds for Digital Development 2021-2027 program. The recruitment will last until October 18 this year.
Telecommunications companies will be able to obtain funding for the construction of networks in 152 competition areas, and access to high-speed Internet (min. 300 Mb/s) will be granted to at least 675,000 people. households and enterprises. Only technological solutions ensuring network scalability to gigabit speeds will be supported. We have allocated nearly PLN 3 billion for this purpose.
Full competition documentation can be found at: Increasing access to ultra- fast broadband Internet (1 recruitment) - Digital Poland Project Center - Gov.pl Portal (www.gov.pl)
This is the third call for applications for co-financing the construction of a high-speed Internet network. We announced the previous two as part of the National Reconstruction and Resilience Plan.
In the first call for proposals, over 300 applications for funding were submitted in 187 competition areas (out of 250 designated for KPO competitions). We are currently analyzing and assessing the submitted applications for this recruitment. The winners of the recruitment will be announced soon.
We announced the second recruitment on September 4 and will last until October 4 this year. We have designated 63 competition areas for the competition, for which no applications were submitted under the KPO 1.0 call for proposals. We have allocated almost PLN 1.5 billion for this purpose. To encourage entrepreneurs to build networks in the most difficult areas in terms of investment, we have made the competition rules more attractive:
We increased the maximum level of project co-financing and allocated almost PLN 200 million more for their implementation than in the first competition.
Beneficiaries will be able to count on indexation of the funding without meeting additional conditions.
