Technical Supervision as a result of the Guidelines on the Granting of Grants for Next Generation Access in Rural Areas.

The MULNV offers NGA broadband support for NRW rural areas from the Digital Dividend II funds and the NRW Rural Program 2014-2020. The NGA Guidelines of the MULNV as well as the NGA Guidelines of the Federal Republic of Germany (state aid basis for the NGA promotion of the MULNV) formulate certain target ranges. Achieving these target ranges is the result of successful broadband promotion in rural NRW.

The call contains 2 work packages:

- 1st work package: Services for network planning issues,

- 2nd work package: Technical monitoring as success check.

In order to control the target achievement of the promotion with regard to the availability of the target ranges and thus the success of the promotion, measurement protocols are requested by the beneficiaries or telecommunications companies. These are checked by random measurements in all funded projects (work package 2). The measurements require technical know-how and measuring equipment which are neither available to the MULNV nor to the district governments as licensing authorities. Therefore, an external company should be commissioned to carry out the measurements.

The experience of the first funded projects shows that in many cases already technical questions of the beneficiaries regarding grid planning arise, which can have a direct impact on the preparation of the measurements as well as the achievement of the target ranges and thus the success of the NGA funding. In the interests of consistency of procedure and equal treatment of all funded projects as well as the resilience of the results of technical monitoring as a performance check in the context of potential audits by the European Union, the Department II-6 considers a holistic technical monitoring as a performance review by a service provider "from a single source" as necessary and purposeful. Thus, the answer to emerging technical questions about network planning (work package 1) as well as the network check in the run-up to the measurements are to be awarded to the same service provider.