FirstNet Reportedly Got at Least 3 Bidders, Public Safety Consultant Says
Word on the street at the recent Public Safety Communications Research Lab meeting was that at least three companies bid for the FirstNet contract, and possibly as many as five, public safety consultant Andrew Seybold said in an email blast…
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Friday. Rivada has been very public as a bidder on the request for proposals, Seybold wrote (see 1606070037). “There was a lot of speculation about who the bidders are,” he said. “Unless more of them issue press releases there is really no way to verify who bid and who did not. The rumored suspects discussed both during the PSCR event and each evening at the parties included AT&T, Verizon, perhaps with Motorola and Ericsson, Pacific Data Vision (Morgan O’Brien’s company) along with Motorola and Ericsson, and perhaps to round things out a company such as Northrup-Grumman or even Booz-Allen Hamilton.” Nothing in the rules prevents a company from participating in different bids, Seybold noted.