CCTV Maintenance

The Council is proposing to appoint a contractor to provide maintenance support to Mendip District Council owned CCTV cameras and associated infrastructure for a period of eight years.

CCTV was historically delivered by each Town/City Council, however, the infrastructure was not well maintained and it reached the end of its life as well as monitoring taking place in a haphazard fashion. Following a number of national changes and operational change in direction, in 2002 a central CCTV function was formed by Mendip District Council (MDC) with significant investment of the infrastructure, Town Councils were required to provide support to the function in the way of finance to support the monitoring of the function.

This arrangement has remained, with MDC owning, managing and upgrading the CCTV infrastructure and Town Council contribution being inflated by RPI each year to cover 90% of the monitoring requirements of the service.

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is in place between MDC and each Town/City Council to protect the arrangements to both parties,

The CCTV service operates a manned provision within traditional office hours, but the service records 24/7 alongside this arrangement, meaning that the service continues to capture information when not directly manned.

The function is managed within the Neighbourhood Services portfolio, with a Senior CCTV officer and a CCTV monitoring officer.

Applications

All applications/submissions are to be sent by e-mail to 'procurement@mendip.gov.uk' by 6th May 2022 5pm. Please take careful note of documentation requirements for your submission.

Clarifications

All clarifications will be managed via the e-mail account 'procurement@mendip.gov.uk' Deadline for clarifications 22nd April 2022 at 5pm.

NB please quote CCTV Maintenance MDC PO18 in all e-mail Subject Headers.