New Chester County Radio System

[KB3WIR]

Does anybody know what Chester County is doing regarding the new radio system?? I've seen a few people around the county on calls with the new EF Johnson radios in there hands, but is anything changing reguarding trunking or anything like that?

[benrussellpa]

Here's the RFP from late last year. I have not heard anything about a successful bidder.

http://www.chesco.org/webapps/Contra...cs/1107-02.pdf

The old Viking portables are being replaced by Ascend portables. I thought this was part of the rebanding process.

[RFEngineering101]

My sources here in Chester tell me that there are still multiple bidders in the running and that a decision could come in the next few weeks.

The EFJ portable upgrades are part of the Rebanding process. It remains to be seen how many of those things will still be in use when the County goes digital with the proposed new system.

[jjimenez01]

Chester County Approves New Radio System

Chester County moves ahead with new $42M emergency radio upgrade - delcotimes.com

WEST CHESTER – Acting to fix an emergency radio system that has been the object of complaints from emergency responders almost from the time it was purchased two decades ago, the Chester County commissioners on Thursday authorized the “go-ahead” of a contract for a new digital system.

If approved next month, the contract, recommended by leaders of the county Department of Emergency Services and supported by an advisory group made up of county first responders, would be with the Harris Corporation of Melbourne, Fla., a leader in the communications industry. It calls for $27.4 million in capital and initial maintenance costs and an additional eight-years of maintenance for $14.7 million, for a total of $42.1 million.

The proposal by Harris, worked out over a period of about one year, was the lowest of three submitted to the county in November 2011. The other two came from Motorola, which proposed a total contact of $50.5 million, and ARINC, which proposed $54.6 million for equipment and maintenance. Officials said the contact could be finalized in early February and work on the system begun immediately thereafter.

One emergency official called the new radio system “a gigantic project, probably the largest "non-bricks and mortar” project in the county in 40 years.”.....

[CommJunkie]

isn't Harris EFJ?

[Septa3371CSX1]

Originally Posted by CommJunkie

isn't Harris EFJ?

Harris took over M/A Comm which was a subsidiary of Tyco.

[DEPUTY11]

Harris, sorry cant tell you anymore at this time