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FDM lands multimillion contract with FiReControl
News FDM will be the prime supplier of training for the FiReControl project, which aims to consolidate emergency fire comms in England into nine regional control centres so firefighters can get to emergencies more quickly. [18 Mar 2008]
Fire service IT project delayed and £70m over budget
News A parliamentary committee is demanding "urgent" action after the projected budget for the IT section of the FiReControl system swelled from £120m to £190m and its finish date slipped from 2009 to 2011. [07 Jan 2008]
telent wins £25m firefighters' comms contract
News The project is known as FiReControl.telent will provide comms infrastructure to the nine control centres and also to England's 1,410 fire stations - including installing PCs, WLANs, pagers and telephone systems. [10 Oct 2007]
£200m firefighting tech contract awarded
News The FiReControl project will use satellite positioning to tell control operators which fire engines with the right equipment on board are the closest to an incident. A £200m IT contract will help save lives by getting... [08 Mar 2007]
Billion-pound Fire Service modernisation row re-ignites
News The £1bn FireControl project is being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and will see 46 local fire service operations rooms replaced with nine regional high-tech control centres. The... [26 Aug 2005]
Fire service strike threat over £1bn high-tech control rooms
News The nine regional centres are scheduled to be up and running by the middle of 2008 as part of the FireControl project being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). The existing local control centres use... [16 May 2005]
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