Published date: 13 February 2023

Last edited date: 30 November 2023

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 1 December 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Fire-brigade and rescue services - 75250000

Location of contract

SG13 8DE

Value of contract

£4,050,000

Procurement reference

IT-285-7324-HCC214170

Published date

13 February 2023

Closing date

1 December 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 December 2024

Contract end date

30 November 2029

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

THIS PROJECT HAS NOW BEEN AWARDED TO:
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED
AWARD: 2023/S 000-035325


Hertfordshire County Council (hereinafter referred to as the 'Council') is seeking to procure a resilient, futureproofed mobilising solution to the Fire Control Collaboration which enables Fire and Rescue services to provide a high-quality response individually and collectively to incidents protecting lives and property. This solution should also be responsive to emerging technologies and act as a driver to continued service improvement.


Background
The Fire Control Collaboration (F C C) is a partnership of two Fire and Rescue Services ( Hertfordshire and Norfolk) which has been established to deliver a technologically advanced and resilient control room function across the partner services and provide the opportunity for efficiencies.

There are currently two member organisations:
- Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service - covers the full county of Hertfordshire. The Service Headquarters is located in Hertford whilst the Training Fire Control Centre is located in Stevenage. It is administered by a Fire Authority which is an internal part of Hertfordshire County Council.
- Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service - falls under Norfolk County Council and covers the full county of Norfolk with a Headquarters in Wymondham

The Partnership currently functions as follows:

- A common technical and communications infrastructure, (including supporting software solutions)
- A common rationalised mobilising system architecture split over two resilient data centres, utilising a single mobilising system, supporting the two Fire and Rescue Services (F R S)
- Fall-back/remote buddying/resilience arrangements
- A Control Room mobilising capability within each F R S to support Service specific 'in-scope' activity and command support
- An enabling framework for common Control Room operating procedures and ways of working to support future mobilising and in-scope activity collaboration
- An enabling framework for opportunities for future convergence of operational practices and 'back office' applications.

The potential lifetime value of this contract would be GBP 4,050,000.00

The contract will be awarded for an initial period of Five (5) years with the option to extend for a further Three (3) years plus Three (3) years. Therefore, the maximum duration of this contract could be Nine (11) years.

Unless terminated in accordance with the provisions of the terms and conditions of the contract.

Please note that the requirements of the contract will be subject to available financial resources, supplier performance and flexibility to meet changing demands.

Organisations should be aware that due to the nature of the Services provided, any Contract formed as a result of this procurement process shall be executed as a deed. Organisations should seek independent legal advice o...

More information

Additional text

Organisations wishing to take part in this project are invited to 'express interest' which will give access to the full procurement documents in the e-tendering system. Please see VI.3) Additional information for further information in the Contract Notice.

Any questions relating to this procurement must be made via the correspondence area in the e-Tendering system, in accordance with the procurement documents and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.



Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Daisy Sanghera (HCC)

Address

Pegs Lane
Hertford
Hertfordshire
SG13 8DE
United Kingdom

Telephone

01438 843391

Email

daisy.sanghera@hertfordshire.gov.uk