British Telecommunications Public LIMITED Company

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, operating through its BT Global division as Openreach, is a London-based foreign-for-profit telecommunications carrier providing commercial telecommunications infrastructure and connectivity services to U.S. defense and civilian agencies in Europe as a prime contractor on full-and-open, non-set-aside purchase orders. The company competes exclusively in unrestricted competitions — no awards carry SBA set-aside designations across its federal portfolio.

BT Global/Openreach's federal work centers on commercial wired telecommunications carriers services (NAICS 517111) and IT/telecom transmission and access services (PSC DG11-P). The capability portfolio spans dedicated Ethernet leases, commercial circuits, virtual private network connectivity, and optical transport network services at capacity tiers ranging from 10 megabits per second to over 111 gigabits per second, supporting voice, data, and video connectivity for both classified and unclassified systems at U.S. military installations and diplomatic facilities across the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Romania, Belgium, Iceland, the Netherlands, Italy, and Hungary. Representative recent prime work includes a $432.3 million potential-value 10.709 GB OTU-2 dedicated commercial lease between RAF Mildenhall and RAF Croughton awarded by DISA in September 2024, a $809.3 million potential-value 111.809 GB OTU-4 commercial ALLA circuit between RAF Menwith Hill and Ramstein Air Base awarded by DISA in April 2025, a $620.4 million potential-value internet services and fiber deployment contract at Crombie, Scotland awarded by the Department of the Navy in September 2024, and a $3.0 million multiple-award BPA for IT cabling infrastructure installation and repair across Air Force communications squadrons in the United Kingdom awarded by Air Forces Europe and Africa in December 2025.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to defense. DISA accounts for 282 awards (43% of the total) and $67.4 million in combined potential value (47% of total portfolio value). The Department of the Army Cyber Command holds 22 awards with $38.9 million combined potential value, and Air Forces Europe and Africa holds 79 awards ($8.7 million potential value), together anchoring the top-three customers across both count and dollar rankings; the concentration diverges slightly at the value tier, where Army Cyber Command's 22 awards punch above count share due to high-capacity circuit ceiling values. The Department of State's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (42 awards, $1.4 million potential value) and the Department of the Navy round out active civilian and military customers. Across 30 distinct agencies, the top five customers account for 76% of awards and 88% of combined potential value.

BT Global/Openreach operates primarily through two large indefinite-delivery vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract DCA40087H0020, which carries 233 task orders, and Indefinite Delivery Contract HC102109D2000, which carries 109 task orders with $6.4 million in combined potential value. Two additional IDCs — DCA40003D0005 (19 task orders) and DCA40002D0020 (15 task orders, $613 thousand potential value) — support smaller order volumes. These vehicles are the primary contracting instruments through which DISA, Air Mobility Command, Army Cyber Command, and Air Forces Europe and Africa place purchase orders for routine commercial telecommunications services.

Activity has grown moderately in recent years. From 2023 to 2025, BT Global/Openreach averaged 9.3 new awards per year, with 16 awards in 2024 and 17 in 2025, though the sample in 2026 and 2027 (only 3 and 1 awards respectively in the source snapshot) reflects a lag in data capture rather than contraction. Combined potential value stands at $141.9 million against combined obligated dollars of $230.3 million, indicating that BT Global/Openreach has delivered beyond initial contract ceilings on a significant portion of active work. Over the next twenty-four months, 17 awards (combined potential value $2.5 million) reach ultimate completion and face potential recompete, but the magnitude is modest relative to the $67.4 million DISA book and the long-tail portfolio of multi-year circuits extending through 2029–2031.

BT Global/Openreach operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract role in the federal award data; 654 awards, or 100% of tracked activity, are prime positions. The company holds no position on GSA Schedules, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs — work is sourced directly via RFQ and purchase order from contracting offices at DISA, Air Force components, Army Cyber Command, and State. All awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders; no task-order-on-a-vehicle or strategic partnership structures are evident in the portfolio. Award selection across the portfolio is uniformly lowest-price-technically-acceptable, reflecting the commoditized nature of commercial telecommunications procurement for defense in the European theater.