Purpose

West Sussex Fire and Rescue
Service are leading an aggregated procurement to purchase three
Incident Command Vehicles (ICU) on behalf of the 3F Group
consisting of West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, East Sussex Fire
Authority and Surrey Fire and Rescue Service (one vehicle per
service).
 
Owing the age of the existing
West Sussex Incident Command Units and lack of technology (one of
which is 20 years old), this new vehicle unit will eventually
replace both vehicles currently in use. 
 
The new contract offers
advancements in technology which will increase our ability to
safely manage and conclude incidents, protecting firefighters
working within a safe system of work, and, enabling new and
emerging technologies to be more easily adopted or integrated
within our command-and-control capability within the vehicles
(‘future proof’) increasing our potential effectiveness
as well as the further support of individual welfare.
 
Grenfell outcomes also require
‘audit’ capabilities to record decision making onboard,
which these new vehicles will have capability to do, coupled with
new reliable connectivity (Wi-Fi capability), intelligent
communication, enabling real time intelligence to flow, connecting
the vehicle and incident commander to a common partnership
intelligence capability platform.
 
The estimated total contract
value for West Sussex is £0.56M based on a 5-year
contract.

Decision

The Cabinet Member for Community Support, Fire
and Rescue has approved the procurement and award the contract for
an Incident Command Vehicle to Emergency One at a value of
£0.507M on a 5-year Contract from point of
delivery.