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  1. Northern General Hospital Site, Sheffield

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    SGW Consulting Group are delighted to confirm that Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed us to provide professional services, security consultancy, CCTV consultancy and project management in relation to the upgrade, extension and ongoing maintenance of CCTV and Electronic Security Systems for the Trust’s portfolio of hospital and healthcare premises.

    The Trust required an experienced and competent consultant to assist in the development of the specification for CCTV procurement that meets the Trust’s objectives. SGW has been appointed to work with the Trust’s Project Team, including the Security Manager, Procurement, Estates, Finance, and other staff to define and document the requirements for a future CCTV and security systems’ deployment across the trusts estate. Consultancy work included the development of a complete specification and evaluation criteria. Each of the requirements have been documented, assigned a priority, and then agreed through a formal sign off process by the Trust’s Project Team.

    Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest, busiest, and most successful NHS foundation trusts. The Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust manages five of Yorkshire’s best known teaching hospitals, including:

    • Northern General Hospital
    • Royal Hallamshire Hospital
    • Charles Clifford Dental Hospital
    • Weston Park Cancer Hospital
    • Jessop Wing Maternity Hospital

    Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research. With around 17,000 employees, they are one of the biggest employers locally. The Trust aims to reflect the diversity of local communities and is proud of our new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authority, and charitable bodies.

    Jon Goodison, Security Manager at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said: SGW has been found to be an excellent partner, offering advice from their wealth of experience in this field. They have listened to us as clients and met the brief without complaint or conflict. I have found them to be nothing but professional in every dealing with us, even when we change requirements well into the programme of works.

    Such is the confidence we now hold in SGW, that we have extended their contract through the tender evaluation and project management stages. 

    Simon Whitehouse, Managing Director of SGW said: We competitively tendered for this project through the ESPO Framework 628 – Security and Surveillance Equipment & Services – Lot 6 – Independent Security Consultancy Services. Having a place on this framework enabled SGW to add another significantly sized NHS Trust, with multiple teaching hospital facilities, to our ever-increasing portfolio of healthcare sector clients. We are delighted that Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are working with us in close collaboration, where we feel we have become an extension of their security and facilities team, to ensure the trust develops and implements a robust and fit for purpose CCTV and Electronic Security System strategy, across its hospital and healthcare estate.

    NOTES TO EDITORS:

    Safety & Security Ltd (SGW) provides safety and security assessment, design and programme management consulting and training services for the protection of people, buildings and built infrastructure assets. Originally established in 2003, SGW now has a strong international footprint, with offices in the UK and Dubai covering EMEA Regions.

    SGW has an extensive portfolio of healthcare clients that also includes Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Spire Healthcare Private Hospitals Group and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. SGW has also a place on the NHS London Procurement Partnership Estates & Facilities Consultancy Services Dynamic Purchasing System Framework – Category 21 Security Systems Consultancy Services.

    For further information, please visit our website at: http://www.sgw-consulting.co.uk/

  2. Stevenage Borough Council – Control Room Relocation

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    A. Overview of the project

    To support the first phase of a town centre redevelopment project, Stevenage Borough Council sought to relocate their previous CCTV Control room to a new location. The delivery of the regeneration scheme is vital to the future success of the town. The relocation of the CCTV facility enabled the Council to obtain vacant possession of the existing premises, known as Swingate House, ready for the first phase of the town centre regeneration, which began during 2019.

    The project relocated the previous CCTV Control Room from Swingate House, Stevenage, to a new location approximately 1.5 miles away at Cavendish House, Stevenage, with a minimum of disruption, cost and downtime.

    B. Scale of project

    The Hertfordshire CCTV Partnership comprises Stevenage Borough Council, North Hertfordshire District Council, East Hertfordshire District Council, and Hertsmere Borough Council. The Partnership’s CCTV control room operates out of Stevenage. It provides 24 hours CCTV coverage 365 days a year across Hertfordshire and Central Bedfordshire by a team of operators who work a rotating shift pattern. Depending on times and operational demands, the control room is staffed by three operators and a Manager. Broadland Guarding Services Limited employs the operators.

    The Hertfordshire CCTV Partnership operates a joint CCTV initiative to reduce crime and fear of crime in principle public and business areas of their Districts. The control room also provides an out of hour monitoring service for schools in the Hertfordshire Districts.

    The control room receives images from CCTV systems covering the town centres, retail and leisure parks, car parks and business areas of the Partners, and the other regions within Hertfordshire are controlled, monitored and recorded.

    There is a dedicated CCTV transmission link to the divisional Police headquarters control room operating within the areas of CCTV coverage where live pictures can events can be monitored. Direct two-way voice communication links between the divisional Police control room for Hertfordshire and the control room.

    The picture below shows the previous CCTV control room in Swingate House, Stevenage.

    The project scope included rerouting existing analogue BT RS1000 circuits from IDF hub locations to the new site at Cavendish House.

    A multiple stakeholder operation exists, with whom SGW was engaged, as follows: –

    • Letchworth Heritage Foundation
    • Central Bedfordshire Council
    • Hertfordshire County Council (Schools)
    • Stevenage Borough Council (Out of Hours)
    • Lone Workers (EHDC)
    • Business Continuity Plan (EHDC)

    The project was complex, and as part of the reconfiguration of a hybrid transmission network, SGW needed to arrange for the redesign or re-routing of transmission circuits, the mix of which is summarised below:

    The total number of cameras which needed to be relocated to the new control room location at Cavendish Road was 545.

    The Hertfordshire Partnership continues to maintain its status as one of the largest geographical CCTV networks in Europe and is actively seeking to add more sites to the estate.  Thirty (30) re-deployable cameras are regularly deployed in areas that develop high levels of antisocial behaviour (ASB).

    C. Project involvement

    SGW’s project involvement with the Stevenage CCTV Consultancy assignment can be summarised as follows: –

    • Stakeholder kick-off meeting to discuss client aspirations for the system long-term.
    • On-site surveys – system configuration and equipment will be assessed.
    • Assessment of cost-saving measures that could be implemented through capital investment with Return on Investment within a defined period (all costs to be documented).
    • Review of technology upgrade options for migration to an IP CCTV platform, as well as a full review of additional functionality that could be implemented on a new updated system.
    • Strategy to ensure a new control room can be procured while ensuring minimum downtime for the CCTV network is achieved.
    • Full system review report with technical options and estimated costs.
    • Completion of CCTV control room CAD drawings to outline technical requirements in general arrangement and elevation format with concept graphics to illustrate design intent.
    • Develop a control room concept design drawing.
    • Completion of a full technical specification for the control room relocation, camera transmission network and new Video Management System (VMS) – if required.
    • Identification of ‘best of breed’ CCTV integrators with a proven track record of delivering similar types of projects to a high level of quality. Ongoing technical advice on compatibility of system components and assistance during the tender process to answer bidder clarifications and assess tender bidder returns.
    • Project management of selected contractor to monitor progress and installation standards.
    • Full witness testing and commissioning of the completed system to assess system performance, ensure compliance with agreed technical specifications, and instruct the contractor to carry out any required remedial work to rectify any identified faults.
    • final report on system installation with any identified remedial work.

    The picture below shows the new CCTV control room in Cavendish House, Stevenage.

    D. Man-days spent on the project

    50

    E. Approx. Value of contract (£)

    Confidential

    F. Project complexities

    The project was a large-scale operation with multiple stakeholders, covering various geographic locations.

    The main complexities identified for both projects are the design and configuration of multiple remote site hybrid transmission architecture and the upgrade/relocation of the control room. SGW’s experience in providing the services is outlined herein.

    G. Client reference and contact details

    I would like to thank you once again for the great service SBC has received from SGW on such a complex project. The scope prepared for the integration company tender was of a high level, which was the first step towards designing a quality control room, and any queries we had were always answered promptly. It has been a pleasure to work with Richard and you.

    Magdalena Kwiatek, Senior Regeneration Officer, Stevenage Borough Council

  3. Transport For West Midlands

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    Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is the public body responsible for transport infrastructure and the co-ordination of public transport in the West Midlands metropolitan county in England.

    It is an executive body of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), with bus franchising (from May 2017) and highway management powers similar to Transport for London. Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has taken the place of Centro, the former Passenger Transport Executive.

    TfWM has a highly resilient, state of the art CCTV facility built in 2012, principally to centralise monitoring of all its bus stations and park & ride facilities across the region. In March 2017, SGW were appointed as CCTV consultant to carry out a fully costed feasibility study for expansion of this control room facility. Following a site inspection, the project life cycle began with a significant design phase, involving 2D CAD design, 3D CAD design, detailed specification production and management of both sub-consultants and contractors for the production of full cost estimates.

    SGW were responsible for providing regular progress reports and to the TfWM Safety and Security Manager and the TfWM Safer Travel Officer (Projects). In addition to this, regular meetings were scheduled with the client team, to provide record documents with updates on progress to date, as well as responding to requests for interpretation and additional information.

     

  4. Transport for West Midlands

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    Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) is the public body responsible for transport infrastructure and the co-ordination of public transport in the West Midlands metropolitan county in England.

    It is an executive body of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), with bus franchising (from May 2017) and highway management powers similar to Transport for London. Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has taken the place of Centro, the former Passenger Transport Executive.

    TfWM has a highly resilient, state of the art CCTV facility built in 2012, principally to centralise monitoring of all its bus stations and park & ride facilities across the region. In March 2017, SGW were appointed as CCTV consultant to carry out a fully costed feasibility study for expansion of this control room facility. Following a site inspection, the project life cycle began with a significant design phase, involving 2D CAD design, 3D CAD design, detailed specification production and management of both sub-consultants and contractors for the production of full cost estimates.

    SGW were responsible for providing regular progress reports and to the TfWM Safety and Security Manager and the TfWM Safer Travel Officer (Projects). In addition to this, regular meetings were scheduled with the client team, to provide record documents with updates on progress to date, as well as responding to requests for interpretation and additional information.