£1.8m comms contract for Warwickshire
Warwickshire Police has renewed its radio communications managed services contract with Arqiva for a further three years in a deal worth £1.8 million.
Warwickshire Police has renewed its radio communications managed services contract with Arqiva for a further three years in a deal worth £1.8 million.
As part of the renewed contract, Arqiva will provide communications support functions, including a vehicle terminal managed service, which will see Arqiva handle critical aspects such as warranty management, inventory control, software upgrades and all vehicle installations. A similar service is in place for all hand-held radio terminals. Other services include network and configuration management and support as well as first-line repair.
As part of the contract, Arqiva provides a full on-site facilities management team within Warwickshire Police, including a radio communications manager.
Wayne Parkes, IS/IT service delivery manager at Warwickshire Police, explained: All the services provided and managed by Arqiva are crucial to force communications to maintain our critical day-to-day activities.
Alastair Davidson, managing director of Arqivas Public Safety division, added: We have been working with Warwickshire Police for 11 years now. This forms part of a series of contract extensions across the UK police forces over the last 18 months, where we have renewed or extended all of our outstanding managed-service contracts.
