• Detailed requirements have been provided by Herefordshire Council staff to enable hybrid meetings where some of the attendees are in the meeting room and others are working at remote locations.
• An easy to use but high quality, reliable solution has been sought and demonstrations held by suppliers of their recommended solutions which they felt met the requirements.
• Procurement has been carried out using the CCS Framework RM3808 Lot 10 – Networking Solutions which has a product catalogue which allows a direct award which is in accordance with the contract procedure rules.
• An initial pilot with detailed success criteria has been carried out in the three of the Plough Lane meetings rooms the Hereford, Leominster and Goodrich rooms. These three rooms provided opportunity to test the equipment fully ahead of this further procurement.
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