Published date: 7 March 2019

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Opportunity (published 7 March 2019, last edited 7 March 2019)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Data-transmission equipment - 32260000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£99,999

Procurement reference

LGSS001-DN397040-31201124

Published date

7 March 2019

Closing date

8 April 2019

Contract start date

29 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

A part of Cambridgeshire County Council's Highways Service, the Integrated Highways Management Centre (IHMC) is based in Vantage House, Huntingdon and acts as a front-line communication tool that actively monitors Cambridgeshire's highway network for congestion that can be caused by road works, incidents, accidents, events or weather so that the team can warn or advise motorists, partners and stakeholders of these disruptions.
The IHMC has many tools at its disposal for network monitoring and then disseminating the information accordingly. These tools include a non-recording CCTV camera network for traffic monitoring that currently comprises of 23 locations across the county. These cameras are mounted to lighting columns or traffic signals, drawing power from directly from them.
The IHMC is staffed Monday to Friday, 7am to 7pm so is not a 24/7 CCTV control room.
In the past this network was hosted externally, but due to prohibitive costings and other mitigating factors, a new solution needs to be sourced.
We require a solution comprising of 4G transmission units at each camera site which can send the camera data to a secure cloud host so that the images can be viewed securely both on the IHMC monitor wall and also on laptops connected to the internet.
These units will need to be powered via an RJ45 Ethernet connector from the camera unit.
The current system allows images at 5 frames per second to cut down on bandwidth usage so any improvement would be a benefit.
We would require the successful contractor to use the Vodafone IoT network with Vodafone M2M SIM cards as Vodafone are the current corporate mobile transmission provider. We would also require a subscription package of no longer than 3 years for the initial term.
We are expanding the network by 2 camera units (separate to this tender process), so the initial network will be 25 cameras, with scope to easily and cost effectively expand the network at a later stage.
We would ideally require the transmission equipment to be lightweight and easily transferable to enable a semi re-deployable network of traffic monitoring cameras

About the buyer

Contact name

Richard Burnett

Address

Shire Hall
Castle Street
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
England

Telephone

+44 1223743848

Email

Richard.Burnett@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Website

https://www.lgss.co.uk/about/