Drone Live Transmission

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                "description": "Suppliers who wish to respond to this request for information should register on the following link: https://sell2.in-tend.co.uk/blpd/ Once registered onto the site, log in and in the top right corner click portals. Scroll down until you find Sussex Police and click the connect to organisation button. You should then be able to access the opportunity to register your interest and download the request for information documents.",
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        "description": "The Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex, on behalf of themselves and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey, would like to invite suppliers to bid for this competitive flexible tender opportunity for the provision of drone video live transmission. This will be for a 2 year contract with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month extension. There are a number of mandatory criteria that Bidders will need to meet in order to progress through to Evaluation, and these can be found within the Tender documents.",
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        "riskDetails": "Sussex and Surrey Police during the life of the contract may need to increase the number of drones used within the contract and subsequently the number of concurrent instances used. Although at present there are no known plans to increase this."
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