REFERENCES for current and recent projects
Strategic Systems Planning, and Implementation
We are currently working on multiple County level projects in several states.
Clinton County, IL :This project takes the county and participant agencies from an obsolete VHF system to a new state of the art VHF P25 Trunking system. The client has been operating with 30-year-old technology in the VHF analog radio band. The number of tower sites, while once thought sufficient to cover the county overall, was designed to supply talk out and talk back to the two sites by mobile radios, in a wide band mode, and high-power mobiles. The sites supporting the radio transmitters were minimal in their capacity for support during the challenging conditions of storms, and local power outages.
MPS was selected to do a fully comprehensive study of all aspects of the existing technology, site conditions, and existing tower structure suitability.
The solution for technology was selected to be remaining in the VHF public safety radio band, move to a fully digital operations, develop 4 more county owned tower sites, abandon a leased site, and refurbish the PSAP tower, and expand to an Army Corps of Engineers location.
Through a competitive bid process multiple possible vendors were entertained using a specific RFP for procurement that included a clear objective on how the new system needed to perform. Through this process, 3 vendors were responsive, and one was chosen. That vendor is TAIT. This system is currently in the implementation phase, with final install of the system occurring this fall, early winter time.
CONTACT FOR CLINTON COUNTY Illinois:
Sgt Kyle Markus
Clinton County Sheriff's Office
911 Communications
810 Franklin Street
Carlyle, IL 62231
618-594-4555
Strategic Systems Planning, and Implementation
St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve Counties, MO - This project is underway in association with RFCC (Radio Frequency Communications Consulting – a collaborative partner) in the Counties of St. Francois/Ste. Genevieve in Missouri. These counties are separate entities that dispatch from a common PSAP. This is a joint, two county operation with St. Francois County being the lead entity. The PSAP for this dual county operation is in St. Francois County. They had outdated VHF analog conventional equipment and are moving to upgraded digital (P25) conventional simulcast systems. For this two-county project, we performed an initial system assessment, established a new system budget, wrote and analyzed competitive vendors bids, and are currently managing the system implementations.
CONTACT FOR THIS JOINT PROJECT:
Mr. Alan Wells
St. Francois County Joint Communications Director
573-434-7842
Mr. Allan Stegall
St. Francois County Project Manager
573-631-7365 Cell
573-431-7842 Office
Strategic Systems Planning, and Implementation
Mahaska County, IA: We recently we completed a successful project in Mahaska County, IA as they moved from an outdated conventional radio system to the RACOM (Harris Corporation in Iowa) P25 SARA network.
CONTACT FOR THIS JOINT PROJECT:
Mark Groenendyk, Supervisor – County Board Chair
Mahaska County Courthouse
106 South 1st Street
Oskaloosa, IA 52577
(641) 673-3469 Office
(641) 660-5316 Mobile