Procurement Summary
Country : United Kingdom
Summary : Vehicle Connectivity Request for Information 2
Deadline : 31 Jan 2025
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Notice Type : Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 113151674
Document Ref. No. : IT-555-45-JPS1846
Financier : Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership : Public
Tender Value : Refer Document
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BACKGROUND TO THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
Surrey and Sussex Police currently connect approximately 500 vehicles to our Force datacentres using a third-party private APN. The number of vehicles connected is continuing to grow in line with business needs.
The solution, whilst reliable, does not provide the levels of flexibility we would like to make best use of available technology and connectivity paths.
We are therefore exploring alternative vendor offerings that will not only allow traffic to be securely transferred to and from our datacentres but also connect to cloud-hosted SaaS solutions through localised in-vehicle Internet breakout.
CURRENT SITUATION
The Force currently uses unmanaged routers within the vehicles, connecting services back to our datacentres over a private-APN. The Force would like to maximise productivity and connectivity options from the vehicles, creating a secure office on wheels work environment that can benefit operational policing.
The existing private APN enables ANPR reads to be sent to our datacentres as well as lookups of data from national systems. A single provider SIM within the router provides the cellular connectivity to the mobile provider edge, before handing off to IPsec tunnels to protect the data from provider edge, into our datacentres.
All traffic needs to traverse the APN, and there is no way to securely send data outside of the APN to ...
Location Of Contract : BN7 2DZ
Industry : Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting - 31000000 Electronic, electromechanical and electrotechnical supplies - 31700000 Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment - 32000000 Transmission apparatus for radiotelephony, radiotelegraphy, radio broadcasting and television - 32200000 Data-transmission equipment - 32260000 Digital transmission apparatus - 32270000 Television and radio receivers, and sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus - 32300000 Television and audio-visual equipment - 32320000 Networks - 32400000 Network equipment - 32420000 Wide area network - 32430000 Telecommunications equipment and supplies - 32500000 Communications equipment - 32570000 Data equipment...
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