The Ayuntamiento de Orihuela has suspended the tender for the installation of surveillance cameras across the coast and its surrounding districts. Originally announced on the twenty-sixth of June with a budget of two hundred and eighty thousand euros, the tender process opened a period of twenty days for companies to submit their bids. However, just one day before the deadline on the fifteenth of July, the process was suspended due to various technical queries raised by interested companies that warranted further examination by municipal technical services.

This suspension is temporary, pending clarification of the technical issues raised. It may be necessary to make significant modifications to the published tender documents or to issue additional relevant information. If substantial changes are required, the suspension could become definitive, necessitating a return to the drafting phase and the publication of a new tender.

The surveillance contract, coordinated by the Councillor for Citizen Security, Mónica Pastor, is part of a larger technological security project spanning multiple phases, with a total investment anticipated to exceed one million euros. This initial phase focuses on thirty locations, primarily in rural areas and along the coast, which have been identified by local police reports as high crime zones without equivalent surveillance systems, unlike the urban core.

The proposed system includes licence plate recognition cameras and context cameras that would aid local police in tracing vehicles linked to offences and tracking movements in specific locations. Additionally, it comprises a new videowall and control centre at police facilities, plus network infrastructure for real-time data visualisation and secure storage. The intended timeline for the project’s execution is six months, with at least one year of warranty and ongoing technical support embedded in the contract.