After almost four years of legal issues, funding fights, contract reversals and vendor competition, the Los Angeles region?s radio authority is set to approve a $280 million contract with?Motorola for a unified?public safety?communications network. According to agenda documents, tomorrow the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable?Communications System (LA-RICS) will approve the contract to stitch together 32 antenna sites, 326 frequency pairs and a variety of existing and new radio technology to provide voice?communications for up to 64,000 users.?Planning for?the network began in 2010 and seemed to be proceeding normally. However, during negotiations the next year with the only other bidder, Raytheon Company, the project suddenly derailed. Legal analysis of the bid documents revealed several elements that violated state bidding regulations. The entire bid process up to that point was abandoned and the project was restarted in 2012. Meanwhile, the universe of?public safety radio has been swirling with 700/800 MHz technical and regulatory changes, and various grant funding has come and gone. The LA-RICS project includes 86 jurisdictions of all sizes and in every corner of the 4,000 square-mile county. The final radio system will mainly consist of a P25 Phase 2 system using 700 and T-band frequencies. Several existing public safety radio?systems will overlay the LA-RICS network and there will be extensive connections among?the various components. If approved by the board, the project would be completed in five phases over the next 15 years.?Download (pdf) a summary of the project bid, or the entire?contract?(large file, 1000+ pages).
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