Telco incumbent Telstra has seen its 2024 network hardware refresh upgrade for the New South Wales Police substantially upgraded, rising from $4.15 million including GST, to $10.4 million.
The updated contract will run from April 10 this year to March 24 2025, with a hardware time frame delivery of date of June 14 this year.
A spokesperson for NSW Police explained to Techpartner.news what the variations to the original contract entailed.
"In January 2024, NSW Police Force undertook a competitive procurement activity which resulted in the awarding of a contract (valued at $4.1m) to Telstra for the provision of equipment required to upgrade the NSW Police Force network and IT infrastructure," an NSW Police spokespeson told Techpartner.news.
"Over the course of the next 16 months, five further competitive procurement processes were undertaken, which resulted in variations to the initial contract," the spokesperson said.
"The contract is now valued at $10.4m," the spokesperson added.
Variations were required to expand the wireless network solution, and also to ensure disaster recovery network connectivity was fit for operational policing requirements, the spokesperson explained.
Equipment to support police data management was also procured.
Futhermore. support for the Police Critical Communications Work Packages Radio Infrastructure Program was included in the contract variation.
Equipment being bought for a required software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) upgrade, and high-performance compute capability were also part of the contract variation, the spokesperson said.
Cisco is a subcontractor to Telstra for the NSW Police network hardware refresh.
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