Oslo municipality currently operates its own network that connects all the municipality's 1 285 service places to the municipality's 2 computer centres. The contracting authority operates this network by hiring data lines, either copper lines or fibre lines. Network equipment is procured under the procurement contract and the equipment is operated by an external operator. About a 3rd of the service locations operate over dark fiber, while the remaining operate over the copper network. The municipality is experiencing a lack of capacity at several of the service locations that are operated over the copper network. In order to improve the need coverage, Oslo municipality shall now wind down its self-operated network and procure the municipality's access network as a service (IPVPN).

The aim of the network procurement is to ensure sufficient network capacity to all users in Oslo municipality with a functional, stable and secure network.