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Devon County Council, on behalf of the South West Consortium, currently comprising Devon County Council and Plymouth City Council, require a Road Weather Data Bureau Service so that they can deliver an effective and efficient Winter Service and Highway Maintenance function, reacting in a timely and appropriate fashion to any hazards that may be presented to highway users, in winter and support Highway Maintenance activities in the summer. Devon currently has a network of 35 road weather stations, whilst Plymouth has 3, and also has a reciprocal agreement to access weather stations from adjacent highways authorities. The weather stations are currently a combination of Vaisala (ROSA and later) and Findlay Irvine (Mk6 and later) supplied equipment, fitted with a range of meteorological and road sensors, and a number have the ability to transmit images Data is also received from a forecast provider and both actual and forecast data are to be integrated into visualization software which is accessible through web browsers. Devon also has a control room where this information is monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week throughout the winter, to support the winter service and a proportion of the data is monitored through the summer, to aid decisions on weather and temperature dependent highway maintenance activities. The control room is generally single-staffed out of hours and a wall map with LED displays assimilates the information so that the staff can quickly determine when road temperatures are critical prior to interrogating a computer. Data is also accessed via the internet by staff across the county who are on duty both in and out of hours, at work and at other locations including home. Being a business critical service, resilience is vital, as timely data is used to monitor the road temperatures and state and determine if any change is required to the winter action and to maintain records for future use. This is fundamental to the Authority's legal defence of winter claims.

CP1070-14 Road Weather Data Bureau Service Contract for Devon and Plymouth Consortium.

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