Published date: 7 February 2020

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 9 January 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Security services - 79710000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

Campus Safety and Security Solution

Published date

7 February 2020

Closing date

9 January 2020

Contract start date

1 February 2020

Contract end date

1 February 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: UoW Thresholds

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

Currently students and staff are able to call for assistance (emergency first aid and general help with security matters) from Security on campus. Upon alerting Security to an incident, they have to ask numerous questions to ascertain the incident location, staff/student details and nature of the support required. This system puts the Students first and allows students to feel safer around Campuses

In addition, the University has centralised lone worker management, but Security are not always aware of staff working out-of-hours and where to appropriately apply resource to provide coverage of these personnel/students.

International students who have different cultural and language barriers to overcome to engage with Security effectively to get an optimal response.

International Travel
The University has an increasing number of staff and students going overseas on behalf of the University on international and UK-based travel supporting activities such as research, field trips, student recruitment and on collaborative working opportunities. Currently the University has limited capability to understand the real-time whereabouts of its personnel at any point in time. If an incident occurred, such as a global terrorism incident we are lacking the tools to visualise real time our personnel, manage communications and response effectively.

Emergency Management
Currently the University has limited ability to respond to a major incident with the appropriate tools and real-time communication provisions. This inhibits the ability to instantly communicate out to groups or all students/staff, updates and instructions on what the University would like them to do in the event of an emergency situation such as stabbing incidents, fire, flood, weather, suspect package or vehicle, active shooter etc.


Award information

Awarded date

9 January 2020

Contract start date

1 February 2020

Contract end date

1 February 2021

Total value of contract

£37,800

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Critical Arc

Address

26 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling ME19 4UA, United Kingdom

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Address

Wulfruna Street
WOLVERHAMPTON
WV11LY
England

Email

procurement@wlv.ac.uk