Estimated Value
Up to £150,000
Deadline
Not specified
Published
7 October 2025
Type
Not specified
Overview
The specification that applies to this quotation and any eventual contract is as below: This contract covers the provision of critical maintenance and out of hours support for the alerting and mobilising technologies across all of Cornwall’s 31 Fire Stations and 9x Remote Sites, including Fire HQ. This includes bespoke fire equipment and technology that are critical to the fire service incident response management capability that ensures the right resources are mobilised as quickly as possible to the correct location.
To include: Fire Station – Alerting and mobilising equipment – hardware and software issues, GD92 / MG4 Principles (Emergency Communications Protocol) (Fire Service) Firecoder installation/swap-outs using appropriate configuration files. Power Supply Unit failures, testing and swap-outs (Fire Service) RPT1102 Transmitter Programming, testing and swap-outs 4g bearer alerting support, break/fix, e.g. Cradlepoints (IBR1700) faults/fixes Airwave Radio ‘Plug and Play’ across various SAN equipment.
E.g. SAN J 70x Win11 Ruggedized Win11 Mobile Data Terminals used across the services vehicle fleet.
Additional details
Diagnostics and support for bespoke fire service risk management software that underpin the services incident operations. E.g.
Airbus SafeCommand Provide triage support in collaboration with Critical Control for 1st and 2nd line diagnostics Coordinate PAT Testing of the alerting equipment across all 31 fire stations and 9 remote sites. The CFRS has support provision for in-hours, so this SLA is critical to ensure any outage or failures outside of core working hours including the weekend is available when needed with adequate cover and resilience in the event of spate conditions.
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Award Details
Mitchell Communications Ltd
£150,000
Likely incumbents
Suppliers who won similar work from this buyer in the last 5 years.
- 1
Home-Start Kernow
4 contracts wonlatest 7 Sept 2026ends 31 Mar 2029£499,998
total awarded
- 2
Livewest Homes Ltd
3 contracts wonlatest 9 Sept 2026ends 31 Mar 2030£25m
total awarded
- 3
Cygnus Contracting Ltd
2 contracts wonlatest 6 Oct 2026£586,255
total awarded
- 4
The Women's Centre Cornwall
2 contracts wonlatest 30 Sept 2026ends 31 Mar 2031£16m
total awarded
- 5
Barnardo's
2 contracts wonlatest 30 Sept 2026ends 30 Jun 2029£10m
total awarded
Home-Start Kernow is the most likely incumbent based on recency and category match. To win, bidders typically need a clearly differentiated proposition or a price advantage.
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Cornwall CouncilKey Dates
Published
7 October 2025
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