Florida ends talks with Motorola Solutions on P25 contract, will seek ‘next-generation system’
Motorola Solutions declined to sign a contract honoring its $687.8 million bid to build a statewide Project (P25) network in Florida, so the state will “move toward the new procurement of a next-generation system,” according to a state letter sent yesterday to Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown.
Written by Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) Secretary Jonathan Satter, the letter apparently marks a formal end to Motorola Solutions’ opportunity to win the largest pending land-mobile-radio (LMR) contract in North America—the P25 upgrade of Florida’s Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS).
“Unfortunately, Motorola has opted not to execute the contract the Department sent on December 23, 2019, that includes clarifications and the terms negotiated during the competitive procurement and agreed to by Motorola in its Best and Final Offer,” according to Satter’s letter to Brown, which was made available to IWCE’s Urgent Communications after 8 p.m. Eastern time yesterday.