The Home Office has placed tender for a new communications emergency services network (ESN), valued at between £666 million and £1.46 billion.

The tender for the communications network requests suppliers to be able to provide mobile, broadband and integrated voice communication services, to around 250,000 emergency services personal across England, Wales and Scotland.

The delivery of the ESN has been divided into four lots including integration, management, infrastructure and operating services.

The new ESN is designed to be more efficient with greater operational cost savings and will replace the current Airwave service contract which is set to expire between 2016 and 2020.

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