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WINCHESTER — A company has been selected to replace Frederick County’s outdated public safety radio system.
The Board of Supervisors voted 4-3 Wednesday night to choose Texas-based EF Johnson and authorized the county administrator to execute a contract with the company not to exceed $20,007,471 for the system’s initial cost. An additional $8.9 million is expected to be spent on the radio system over the next 20 years.
More than two years ago, Pennsylvania-based Mission Critical Partners assessed the county’s existing public safety radio system and identified numerous problems with it, including limited capacity, no frequencies transmitted countywide and a limited number of operational channels in the event primary dispatch channels are overloaded. Some parts of the system were installed more than 20 years ago…
