So someone, sometime, somewhere in Whitehall was optimistic about hitting delivery cedules? Call me deluded but....
Hello Moto! UK Home Office shoves comms giant another £82m to stay on Emergency Services Network gig
The UK Home Office has extended its Emergency Services Network contract with Motorola, intended to shift blue-light services to 4G. The move signals further delays to an already troubled programme. In the contract award notice published this week, the department said it was extending the deal until December 2024. That will …
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Friday 21st June 2019 16:29 GMT wyatt
Re: I think the phrase is...
I spoke to someone within EE at BAPCO and they were fairly confident they were in a good position to go ahead. All this talk of the contract period being increased, shouldn't they be going out for tender for the next 5/10 years after this contract has finished by now? Now that will be interesting..
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Friday 21st June 2019 16:40 GMT Commswonk
Re: I think the phrase is...
I spoke to someone within EE at BAPCO and they were fairly confident they were in a good position to go ahead.
This comment is hardly "original" but that doesn't make it inapplicable: Well he would, wouldn't he?
Also note "fairly confident"; hardly the same as "definitely ready to go ahead" is it?
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Friday 21st June 2019 18:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: I think the phrase is...
Doesn't Motorola have EE/the Home Office over a barrel because the barrel is the existing, working system that is supposed to have been decommissioned by now?
My understanding is EE's replacement solution hasn't delivered full coverage or usable functionality (I accept that the proposed full functionality is merely a pipe dream) and the agreed (vs the requried...) coverage is still a few years away from being delivered.
I maybe wrong - all corrections welcome.
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