PierCon News
July 2008 State of Massachusetts
After a strenuous professional ability and past-performance evaluation process, PierCon Solutions has been selected as a provider of information technology professional services through the Massachusetts ITS33 Contract. PierCon is proud to be among the few approved vendors from whom Massachusetts government agencies can choose to provide them with System Planning Services including architecture, business process management, network planning, system planning, telecommunications services and utility computing.
October 2007 Greenburgh, NY
PierCon Solutions was awarded a contract from the Town of Greenburgh, NY to evaluate the creation of an interoperable voice radio channel for communications between the town’s police and the seven village police departments within the Town of Greenburgh. PierCon developed a system design and assisted with frequency coordination and FCC licensing.
June 2007 PierCon Chosen as Rockland County, NY Project & Construction Manager
PierCon Solutions was chosen as Rockland County’s Project and Construction Manager for an up to $30M countywide public safety communications system. During the initial phase, PierCon will be responsible for project management and design oversight of the County’s new P25 compliant UHF simulcast digital narrow band UHF trunking network, including developing construction specifications for tower sites, budget and change order management, legislative briefings and subscriber relations and training.
PierCon recently completed other public safety wireless projects for Rockland County, including cellular tower safety and compliance testing and the 800 MHz Rebanding of their countywide mobile data system that resulted in a precedent-setting FCC ruling in favor of the county.
April 2007 PierCon To Povide Detailed Design for New Fairfield, CT Public Safety System
We are proud to announce that the Town of New Fairfield, CT has contracted with PierCon to proceed to the detail design phase for their upgraded town wide public safety communication system. PierCon previously performed a comprehensive needs analysis and final presentation to the town. The recommendations involve managing short term enhancements plus a 90 day detailed design and specification document for a multi-site P25 VHF narrowband conventional radio system, new dispatch console, user training and FCC licensing.
March 2007 White Plains, NY
The Southern Westchester County BOCES has engaged PierCon Solutions to develop a wireless voice communications system for their nearly 200 school facilities. Based on a threat analysis, the system will incorporate low-power simplex and repeated systems, a cross-band solution for VHF and UHF subscribers and direct access to school personnel by first responders.
March 2007 Coastal Region Homeland Security Consortium, MA
PierCon provided Subject Matter Experts to assist the Coastal Homeland Security Region (consisting of Cohasset, Hingham, Hull, Marshfield, Scituate and Weymouth, MA) in their development of an interoperable first responder voice and data network for the six town region and certain county, state and federal agencies.
