Dynamic Cover Tool

West Midlands Fire Service are looking to identify a software solution to meet the needs described below. The system should be ‘off the shelf’ and needs to be in place by December 2015. This advert is requesting expressions of interest to help identify the procurement route.

We are seeking to purchase a software solution that enables us to dynamically relocate available vehicles in response to changing levels of vehicle availability in order to maintain appropriate standards of risk and response cover. This software solution will show impacts on response times and the most effective moves to be made to maintain or improve response times. It will also be able to operate outside of the live mode to enable the tool to be able to be used to predict the impact of vehicle movements and positioning.

The information will be shown in a visual map based format showing

• Vehicle location
• Optimum vehicle locations
• Risk
• Attendance times

The aim of this software solution is to provide a real-time visual aid to resource managers and risk planners for deciding on appropriate resource configurations in order provide the best possible service to the community.

The aim of the tool is to

• Position our vehicles in the best location to maintain or improve our risk based 5 minute response time in a live and dynamic way.
• Understand our blended fleet and utilise each vehicle type in the most effective way.
• Balance our response between risk based cover and equity of cover across the area
• Make better use of available resources
• Provide live data in relation to attendance times across the delivery area
• Provides guidance on the optimum cover moves to be made to enhance or maintain attendance times to category one incidents
• Work with Automatic Vehicle Location System and have live positioning of all vehicles
• Be able to dynamically measure attendance times across the organisation
• Enable us to understand key vehicles and locations for optimum fire cover and the locations and vehicles of least value
• To produce hotspot maps of risk within our delivery area
• Enable us to understand the impacts of changes in vehicle types and station locations
• Enable us to have a more flexible and roaming fleet in order to enhance attendance times