Airwave Solutions withdrew its injunction that was preventing the UK government to award a contract for the mobile network for the emergency services.

Despite withdrawing the legal challenge that was affecting the contract for the lot three of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme, Airwave Solutions admits to continue with the necessary legal actions to protect its position.

The company claims that they “do not believe that bidders, including Airwave, were given equal treatment under relevant procurement laws…”. However, they decide “not pursuing the continuation of a suspension as we do not wish to delay the procurement process, but remain fully committed to our claim related to the lot three process”.

Other bidders for the lot three were the UK Broadband Networks, Vodafone and Telefonica. However, the contract has been awarded to EE.

The minister for policing, Mike Penning, said that these were very positive news as the Government decided to allocate an additional £1 billion – to the original emergency services network budget – in the spending review in order to improve this services.

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