📋 Tender Overview
Adif launches the tender for a Technical Due Diligence (DDT) of its telecommunications assets with the objective of having an independent analysis of the most relevant aspects in this area. This audit, which will provide confidence in the information on these assets of Adif and Adif AV, is carried out prior to a possible search for an industrial and strategic partner for the joint exploitation of the telecommunications assets of Adif and Adif AV.
At this point, the DDT will contribute to the candidates for a possible selection of an industrial partner not conditioning their binding offers on a subsequent review of the set of assets, thus avoiding delaying the process.
The tender will determine the conditions for the preparation of this technical due diligence of the telecommunications assets of Adif and Adif AV of different types: ducts, fiber optics, telecommunications parks, communications rooms and rooms and mobile communications locations, located throughout the national territory.
The review of both documentary and field assets would be carried out taking into account the special circumstances of the railway environment in which they are located. The successful bidder will carry out due diligence covering a relevant sample that ensures the reliability of the analysis. This work will be carried out within two months.
Among the lines of analysis of Adif and Adif AV in the telecommunications sector would be, in the future, the selection of an industrial partner to consolidate its position in the telecommunications market and become a reference neutral operator in Spain. In this way, they would develop a line of business around their current and future telecommunications infrastructures, which would contribute to expanding their deployment and exploitation capabilities and optimize the commercialization of these assets, in order to lead the digitization process of the rail mobility and support the development of the information society in Spain.
Previously, the infrastructure manager already carried out a preliminary consultation with the market to evaluate collaboration alternatives, promote new investments and optimize the exploitation and commercialization of its assets in this area.
Adif and Adif AV have an integrated heritage of more than 15,000 km of roads on which they deploy telecommunications infrastructures - more than 24,000 km of optical fiber, 1,800 technical buildings and more than 700 mobile communications sites - which contribute to better management of railway operation and exploitation.
The scope of the actions that would be carried out with the selection of a possible partner would include the development, operation, maintenance and commercialization of telecommunications infrastructures (fixed and mobile broadband, real estate assets and spaces), as well as the development, management, support and commercialization of services provided on said infrastructures (dark and illuminated fiber, IoT connectivity, wholesale services of passive and active neutral infrastructure, etc.).
