Contract award · 8 May 2026

Mobile voice and data services

Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service awarded “Mobile voice and data services” to Vodafone Limited for £45,000 on 8 May 2026.

Postal & telecoms servicesSouth East

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Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.

Key facts

Value
£45,000
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
Postal & telecoms services · Mobile-telephone services (CPV 64212000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date8 May 2026
  2. Published1 Jun 2026Published 24 days after the contract date

Description

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service has a requirement for Mobile network SIM cards, these are issued for voice and data use by staff who are wholly or partly mobile workers as part of their role. Users are also allocated a mobile device for home working and as a lone working safety device.The Authority reviewed Crown Commercial framework RM6261 Lot 1 - Mobile Voice and Data Services Catalogue - to direct award the contract to Vodafone as the Authority has been with Vodafone through a third-party re-seller. The justification to re-award the contract is the technical difficulty of changing the provider and the savings realised awarding the contract to Vodafone via the framework. The lenght of the call off contract is over four year period as the framework did not have any maximum call off contract length.

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