NRTS

National Roads Telecommunication Services Contract

In September 2005 Peek commenced its largest project to date; the Highways Agency NRTS project. This is a 10.5 year Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract involving all motorways in England and involves taking over the existing communications infrastructure, maintenance, and provisioning works from existing national and regional contractors, developing and deploying a new converged high speed network, and maintaining the new network for the period of the contract.

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Peek is a key channel partner to the GeneSYS Consortium, which is led by Fluor - one of the world's largest publicly owned engineering, construction and maintenance services organisations. Fluor are providing the project finance and overall contract management. Peek provide maintenance services and network conditioning, whilst Alcatel, one of the world's largest information technology providers, provide the communications solution for GeneSYS. Other companies involved in the Contract include Mott MacDonald as the infrastructure designer, Telindus as CCTV specialist provider and a number of civil engineering contractors.

The Highway Agency's (HA) motorway communications network requires various types of data circuits between 7 Regional Control Centres (RCC's), the National Traffic Control Centre (NTCC), a number of Police Control Offices (PCO's) and in excess of 14000 devices located along the 7500 Km of motorway. The current telecommunications network of cables and equipment installed over the last 40 years, has been developed in piecemeal fashion, driven by the needs of individual road schemes to keep pace with the expanding motorway system. This network needed upgrading and managing nationally to meet the HA's current and future requirements for information exchange.

In response to the above requirements, NRTS (through GeneSYS) will deliver the following:

  • provide telecommunications services on a national basis
  • co-ordinate and manage the planning of telecommunications services
  • maintain existing and future telecommunications services
  • upgrade and extend telecommunications services to enable the Agency to expand the network
  • develop new types of services required by new initiatives such as Active Traffic Management
  • facilitate and manage any commercial third party opportunities, for example, generating revenue by using spare capacity in the fibre optic cable network
  • provide web based information
  • provide an aerial site service
  • provide design and consultancy services

Alcatel identified a requirement for motorways specialist support in developing the new telecommunications infrastructure and systems and also required an experienced installations contractor. Peek openly bid and won this project work and have a secondary NRTS contract with Alcatel for these services.

To support the NRTS project Peek has put together a team of over 100 personnel, including technicians, engineers, Network Operations Centre (NOC) engineers, system developers, health and safety, environmental and security staff, quantity surveyors and management. The team have also been involved in the development of the existing Peek fault management system for NRTS requirements, working towards both ISO14001 Environmental and ISO 27001 Security Standards. Peek is also using it's extensive regional network of offices and depots to provide facilities for the GeneSYS team throughout the country.

This contract is a significant award for Peek, and will provide the Company with an excellent platform on which we can continue to grow and strengthen our business. We look forward to working in partnership with GeneSYS and the HA to deliver this strategically important contract.

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