Surveillance services

Tender description

Aberdeen City Council intended to implement an Integrated camera operations facility for the coordinated use of existing traffic monitoring, public safety and security cameras across the City of Aberdeen. Aberdeen City Council intends to implement an integrated camera operations facility for the coordinated use of existing traffic monitoring, public safety and security cameras across the City of Aberdeen. This will require integration of the Council’s camera equipment and associated back office monitoring and control facilities for Traffic, housing and estates services with those of Police Scotland in Aberdeen. Each of these services currently operate largely in isolation at several locations across the city, using different cameras, camera monitoring and control systems and communications protocols. The Council proposes the installation and operation of a single integrated video management system (VMS) at the operations facility at Marischal College in Aberdeen to allow operations staff to monitor and control all available Council and Police cameras in the city (a combined total of approximately 600 cameras). This work will include retention, replacement, upgrade or removal of all of these cameras following a detailed assessment of each camera location to be undertaken by the successful bidder following Award of contract. In addition to the above requirements, the Council wishes to consider facilities to improve operational effectiveness, including more rapid and better informed responses to incidents and events by the Council and Police supported by the latest technological advances in automated and intelligent video monitoring, detection and alerting.