• Project: Bergen County Public Safety Communications System
• Type: Program Management
• Location: Bergen County NJ
• Project Cost: $22M

Bergen County, one of the most populous areas of the Country with 70 municipalities, contracted CCMS to provide Design and Program Management Services in order to implement a new Countywide Trunked Radio System.  The goal is to provide County-wide E911 and dispatch services throughout the County and allow the municipalities to share services and save the tax payers the cost of services.  The system would also allow the County’s Public Safety and Service (PD, Sheriff, Prosecutor, DPW and Transportation) to consolidate radio communication systems and save County tax dollars.  The digital system will also incorporate analog capabilities as necessary to provide interoperability with non-participating towns.  In addition to replacing the County’s existing radio equipment, the initial project scope included upgrading several of the County’s existing radio communications sites, the construction of new radio communications towers and the establishment of a new microwave radio loop.

During the course of the project’s design phase, the County determined that a fully redundant communication center would be in the best interest of its citizens to ensure their safety.  As such, our scope of services was increased to include Program Management Services to oversee the design and construction of the new Communications Center.

In order to ensure the project doesn’t become a tax burden to the County, CCMS is managing the implementation of the new Radio Communication System in a phased approach.  We are currently managing the site upgrades and plan to go out to bid on the new Trunked system in the first quarter of 2007.