Expansion of gigabit network ZV High-speed network Rhine-Neckar in Sinsheim - Hoffenheim

The client is the Zweckverband High-Speed-Netz Rhein-Neckar on behalf of the city of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg.

The town of Sinsheim is a town in northwestern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about 22 km southeast of Heidelberg and 28 km northwest of Heilbronn, on the river Elsenz. Sinsheim, first mentioned in 770, belonged for centuries to the Electoral Palatinate. It is the second largest city in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis after Weinheim and a middle center in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. Since 1 January 1973, Sinsheim has been a large district town. Sinsheim lies in the heart of the Kraichgau and borders on the southern foothills of the front Odenwald. Through the town flows the Elsenz, a small, mostly non-navigable, left tributary of the Neckar, which empties into it near Neckargemünd.

The urban area of Sinsheim is divided into the core town and the twelve districts of Adersbach, Dühren, Ehrstädt, Eschelbach, Hasselbach, Hilsbach, Hoffenheim, Reihen, Rohrbach, Steinsfurt, Waldangelloch and Weiler, which were incorporated as part of municipal reform in Baden-Württemberg between 1971 and 1973.

As part of a Europe-wide tender, NetCom BW GmbH, Ellwangen, was identified as the operator for the network operation of the NGA network.

The client plans to build an NGA network (FTTB) in the Hoffenheim district of the city of Sinsheim. The aim is to develop the grey NGA spots in the municipal area in accordance with the gigabit guideline of the federal funding in order to ensure the minimum bandwidths specified in the grant decision and the funding programme referred to therein. The expansion concept of the measure can be found in the annex expansion concept.

The project is to be funded according to the guideline "Funding to support the gigabit expansion of telecommunications networks in the Federal Republic of Germany" (Gigabit Directive) and according to the "Administrative regulation of the Ministry of the Interior for the co-financing of the federal guideline "Funding to support the gigabit expansion of telecommunications networks in the Federal Republic of Germany" (VwV Gigabit co-financing)". The provisional funding decision of the federal government for the project as well as the funding decision of the state for the co-financing of the project are attached in the annex grant notice.

For the client, the provision of citizens and traders with efficient and promising broadband services is an important task in terms of services of general interest, economic development and securing the location. With the requirement of high data rates and long transmission distances between networks, the expansion of fiber optic technology plays a decisive role.

For this reason, the client has decided to improve broadband coverage in the underserved areas of the municipal area in the years 2023 to 2025. For this purpose, supply infrastructures to the supply areas as well as inner-city distribution networks in the currently underserved areas are established on the basis of FTTB technology starting from connection points to the upstream infrastructure of the network operator or to the backbone network of the special-purpose association. This new passive NGA network (FTTB) to be created will be entrusted to a private network operator for the use and production of the active network level and the provision of high-bit-rate broadband connections for a fee. The network operation of the newly created passive NGA network (FTTB) has already been awarded to NetCom BW GmbH, Ellwangen, as operator within the framework of a Europe-wide tender.

The client has decided to tender the production of this new passive NGA network (FTTB) as a general contractor service. The general contractor should provide both the necessary planning and the necessary construction work for the “operational” and functional production of the new passive NGA network (FTTB) to be created, along with house connection and co-relocation management.

The planning and construction services required for this are the subject of the tender. The new passive NGA network (FTTB) to be established with this tender comprises the following lengths and building connection points (GAP) in the grey NGA spots:

City of Sinsheim, district of Hoffenheim:

- approx. 21.6 km as a new building up to the private property boundary

- approx. 892 building connection points (GAP) in grey NGA spots

- approx. 4 technical locations (PoP container/MFG)

- ca. 20 Unterverteilungen (RVt)

The client's as-built documents/planning documents do not comply with the requirements of the funding body with regard to the fibre, material and reserve concept of the Confederation to be implemented as well as the applicable GIS ancillary provisions. The planning status must therefore be further developed into approval planning with regard to the fibre, material and reserve concept of the Confederation and made available in accordance with the applicable GIS ancillary provisions.

The client has already had a comprehensive FTTB structural planning and an FTTB route planning drawn up in the course of the funding application procedure, which can be made available to the future contractor in electronic data formats (shape data) as a basis for his further planning. These data shall be made available to candidates/tenderers at the next stage of the procedure upon presentation of a confidentiality agreement signed by the candidates/tenderers.

Everything else can be found in the appendix task description to the tender documents, to which reference is made in full.