Contract Consolidation

Openreach is working to consolidate all Ethernet point to point contracts into one single contract.

The information below is intended to keep our customers informed of our progress.

Introduction
Openreach Commentary
Draft contract
Comparison Analysis

Introduction

Earlier this year, Openreach successfully completed the consolidation of the Wholesale Extension Services (WES) and Backhaul Extension Services (BES) Contracts into one Backhaul and Wholesale Extension Services Contract.

Over the past few months, Openreach has sought views from Communications Providers (CPs), via the 10th July 2009 Contract Workshop, Customer Briefings and Industry Forum presentations, on the prospect of further contract consolidation. The benefits of this include ease of doing business and efficient use of resources.

CPs have provided positive feedback to Openreach on its proposal for further contract consolidation within the Connectivity Services portfolio. At the 15th October 2009 Contract Workshop, CPs supported Openreach's proposal to consolidate its 9 Ethernet point to point contract into One Connectivity Services contract. In conjunction with CPs, Openreach has agreed a final version of a consolidated Connectivity Services contract. Consolidation means what it says – no material or detrimental changes will be made to any consolidated contract compared with current separate contracts.

See final clean version below. More detail on how Openreach has approached this exercise can be found in the Commentary and Analysis documents below.

If you have any questions, please contact Susan Smith at susan.3.smith@openreach.co.uk.

Name	Size	Issue date
Ethernet point-to-point Contract Workshop Slides from the Ethernet point-to-point Contract Workshop held on 10th July 2009.	105 K	15/09/2009
Ethernet point-to-point Contract Workshop Slides from the Ethernet point-to-point Contract Workshop held on 15th October 2009.	65 K	27/10/2009
Minutes from Workshop held on 15th October 2009	12 K	27/10/2009
Minutes from the audio call held on 13th November 2009	10 K	19/11/2009

Openreach Commentary

The document below provides an overview of Openreach's approach to the contract consolidation project.

Type	Name	Size	Issue date
	Openreach Commentary	133 K	15/09/2009
	Openreach Commentary 23rd October 2009	62 K	27/10/2009

Draft contract

Available below is the draft consolidated text. Any contracts which CPs and Openreach agree to consolidate will not have any material or detrimental changes made to them. The only changes to contract text will be those which are required in order to ensure consolidated text makes sense.

Name	Size	Issue date
Conditions Draft 1	290 K	15/09/2009
Conditions Draft 1.1	172 K	27/10/2009
Conditions Draft 1.2	183 K	19/11/2009
Conditions Issue 1 - notification clean copy	115 K	04/12/2009
Schedule 1 - Definitions Draft 1	167 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 1 - Definitions Draft 1.1	63 K	27/10/2009
Schedule 1 - Definitions Draft 1.2	66 K	19/11/2009
Schedule 1 - Definitions Issue 1 - notification clean copy	53 K	04/12/2009
Schedule 2 - Service Draft 1	368 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 2 - Service Draft 1.1	173 K	27/10/2009
Schedule 2 - Service Draft 1.2	176 K	19/11/2009
Schedule 2 - Service Issue 1 - notification clean copy	108 K	04/12/2009
Schedule 3 - Forecasting Draft 1	148 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 3 - Forecasting Draft 1.1	43 K	19/11/2009
Schedule 3 - Forecasting Issue 1 - notification clean copy	38 K	04/12/2009
Schedule 4 - Service Level Agreement Draft 1	146 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 4 - Service Level Agreement Draft 1.2	151 K	19/11/2009
Schedule 4 - Service Level Agreement Issue 1 - notification clean copy	72 K	04/12/2009
Schedule 5 - Migration Draft 1	85 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 5 - Migration Draft 1.1	35 K	19/11/2009
Schedule 5 - Migration Issue 1 - notification clean copy	30 K	04/12/2009
Schedule 6 - Replacement of BES by BNS Draft 1	84 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 6 - Replacement of BES by BNS Draft 1.1	35 K	19/11/2009
Schedule 6 - Replacement of BES by BNS Issue 1 - notification clean copy	29 K	04/12/2009

Comparison Analysis

The documents below help to explain the draft contract text and how Openreach has approached the drafting detail.

Name	Size	Issue date
Conditions	237 K	15/09/2009
Conditions Comparison for conditions - Issue 1.2	142 K	27/10/2009
Schedule 1 - Definitions	120 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 1 - Definitions Comparison for Schedule - Issue 1.1	53 K	27/10/2009
Schedule 2 - Service	160 K	15/09/2009
Schedule 2 - Service Comparison for Schedule 2 - Issue 1.1	89 K	27/10/2009

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