Lease costs for South East Regional Control Centre announced
July 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Campaigns, FiReControl - Regionalisation of Emergency Fire Controls, News, News - Local
Lease costs for South East Regional Control Centre (SERCC) have been announced.
The figures show that the South East Regional Emergency Fire Control has a 25 year lease costing £46 million.
Breaking this down per annum is an annual cost of £1.84m.
Dividing this figure down further to County level (for the nine counties for the RCC: Isle of Wight, Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent, Berkshire) means the cost per annum to the local tax payer will be £204,445.
Additional figures that would have to be added to the above annual costs for the Regional Fire Control Centre (based in Fareham) would be £396,825 per annum (£44,091 for the Isle of Wight) for facilities management services (provided by VT Flagship), Firelink (radio contract costs – unknown) and staffing costs (unknown).
All of these additional charges would be levied to Isle of Wight council tax payers to the Fire Authority of the Isle of Wight Council.
The IT solutions (provided by EADS) costs are £200 million. Whilst ongoing consultants have cost £52m since the Regional Fire Control Centre (FiReControl project as it is known) inception in 2004.
Additional costs include the project management at the Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly Office of the Deputy Prime Minister – the then John Prescott), along with the South East Regional Management Board for FiReControl.
The project is five years behind schedule and massively over budget.
The nine Regional Fire Control Centre buildings lie empty costing £40,000 per day in rent (source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/7533673/Will-this-waste-of-our-money-never-stop.html).
Projected savings have not materialised. The Isle of Wight Fire Control Centre was originally due to move to the South East Regional Control Centre (in Fareham) in 2007, but is now due to move in 2012, with rumours of further delays to the project. Isle of Wight Fire Control staff have seen their jobs under threat for the past six years.
The FiReControl project is currently subject to the spending review being carried out the the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition.
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition has promised to provide services at a local level.
Source: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2010-07-22a.9947.h&s=firecontrol#g9947.r0
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