# CP2360-23 Legal Support Service for CDS Broadband Project

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Devon County Council.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Devon County Council](/buyers/devon-county-council/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [DWF LLP](/suppliers/dwf/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £400,000
- Tender value: £400,000
- Award date: 1 July 2023
- Published: 7 July 2023
- Contract start: 2 July 2023
- Contract end: 1 July 2027
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: f30fc9cc-47b0-441a-b3df-2f0c597421f4-660768
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-2ad73690-3627-49ad-b762-41d6e31bc730

## Description

The appointed Provider will be required to advise the Connecting Devon and Somerset Programme rather than any individual authorities, although Somerset County Council is the Accountable Body for the CDS Programme\. CDS connects some of the hardest to reach communities in England, where the commercial market will not provide the infrastructure without public subsidy\. CDS awards public subsidised contracts to companies through competitive tender to build the infrastructure needed, such as fibre cables or wireless masts\. CDS can only invest where suppliers have no declared and credible plans to invest their own resources in networks

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/f30fc9cc-47b0-441a-b3df-2f0c597421f4-660768)