The Provision of Monitoring Services for the CCTV Control Room and Mobile Patrol of Car Parks

Bournemouth Borough Council is appointing the services of a company to operate our CCTV System Control Room Monitoring Services from the CCTV control room which is located in Dorset Police Divisional Headquarters at Madeira Road, Bournemouth.

The supplier will manage the CCTV control room staff as well as staff carrying out mobile patrols of the Council's car parks.

The Supplier is to supply properly trained, licensed and accredited CCTV monitoring staff in line with the requirements of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (?the PSIA?) and comply with future legislative requirements regarding the licensing of operators to operate public space surveillance systems to be located at the Councils CCTV facility.

The supervisory or management provision of the CCTV monitoring staff and service will be carried out by the Supplier outside of the monitoring requirement.

The supplier is to supply trained, licensed and accredited Static or Door Supervisor staff who will also hold a CCTV (PSS) Operator qualification in line with the requirements of the Private Security Industry Act 2001.The purpose of this post is to supply a deterrent security service in the Council Car Parks and Buildings in accordance with schedules provided by Bournemouth Council.

The Contractor must ensure that the required staffing levels are maintained at all times and staff resources or contingencies must be sufficient to enable this.

Should further monitoring be required on a short-term basis then the staff will be supplied at the tendered hourly rate.

The length of the contract will be for 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.

Therefore, if all extensions were taken the full term of the contract would be 5 years.

The start date of the contract will be 4.2.2016.

The Council reserve the right to amend the number of CCTV cameras, whether by expanding its monitoring client base (including both private and public organisations) or by increasing/decreasing its CCTV cameras without affecting the monitoring and mobile patrol specification.

The Council reserve the right to amend the level of monitoring hours and mobile patrol by 30% providing 3 months notice is given to the contractor without affecting the scheduled hourly tendered rate or incurring costs to the Council.

The awarded value of the contract to the successful supplier was 1 515 112 GBP over a 5 year contract (3 years with a possible 2 year extension) based on current requirements.

The Council reserves the right to amend the service level required.