Australia Releases RFI for National Public-Safety Mobile Broadband

Currently, Australian governments are working together towards achieving a nationally interoperable (‘federated’) Public Safety Mobile Broadband (PSMB) capability which will enable accessible, reliable and secure high-speed mobile data communications within and between public safety agencies (PSAs) and across jurisdictions. In order to understand the possibilities, the NSW Telcom Authority released a new Request For Information (RFI) on behalf of all Australian governments, to seek information from the telecommunications industry about the current, proposed and potential PSMB service delivery model(s), the ability of these PSMB service delivery model(s) to meet the PSMB National Objectives and High-Level Requirements (HLRs), developed collaboratively by Australian governments and finally how these PSMB service delivery model(s) might be implemented, - including the contribution any spectrum dedicated to PSMB could make to meeting the PSMB National Objectives.

The release document says that respondents must be approved as a Prequalified Supplier on the ITS 2573 Operational Telecommunications Equipment, Infrastructure and Services Prequalification Scheme or Respondents must be approved as an Advanced Supplier on NSW Government ICT services scheme.

https://tenders.nsw.gov.au/dfs/?event=public.rft.show&RFTUUID=DA6C0C6D-EF4D-351F-2FFAAD22BEB42C62