IT Services in Fire and Rescue - Find a freedom of information request

1. Does the Fire and rescue service outsource and use third party suppliers under any of the
following three categories?

• IT Hardware/Software.
• IT Support.
• IT Services and communication.

2. If so who are the suppliers/re-sellers used and what has the spend been with them in the last six months?

3. Who are the contacts/procurement in the Fire and rescue service to speak with in order to get added as an IT supplier to the Fire and rescue service?

4. Who are the IT managers in the Fire and rescue service in place and there contact details?

1.

• IT Hardware/Software. Yes
• IT Support. Yes
• IT Services and communication. Yes

2. Lincolnshire County Council are in contract with Serco for the provision of the Corporate support services contract which includes IMT, People Management, Finance and CSC services. The value of this contract is £72,000,000 as per our contract register for the period 2015 to 2022.

Spend specific to Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue:
IT hardware for our Control Room was provided as part of the East Coast and Hertfordshire
control room consortium (ECHCRC) with Herts FRS as lead Authority. Annual costs including
hardware refresh and maintenance £238,000.

IT Hardware alerter support and MDT support from Telent – Annual fees £53,000.

IT Software (All Annual costs):

• Infographics - £59,320
• Airbus - £8130
• Crash Recovery - £14,531
• Chemdata - £11670
• CadCorp - £15959
• Redkite - £12500
• Cadline - £3135
• LearnPro/PDRPro - £22950
• XVR - £25000
• InPhase - £15850

3. Lincolnshire County Council use the procurement frameworks through Local Government, you would therefore need to ensure that you were on the relevant framework(s).

4. Group Manager Helen Tooley – Helen.Tooley@lincoln.fire-uk.org