Planning

Procurement of the Police National Database

  • Home Office

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-030500

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-040c6b

Published 16 October 2023, 4:03pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

Home Office

2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

Contact

Josiah Mayled

Email

Josiah.Mayled@homeoffice.gov.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKI - London

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office

one.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Ministry or any other national or federal authority

one.5) Main activity

Public order and safety


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Procurement of the Police National Database

Reference number

C24378

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 72320000 - Database services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The Home Office is the lead government department for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, counter-terrorism and police.

The Home Office and policing need to ensure the continuity of the Police National Database (PND) from April 2026. The PND programme is therefore exploring delivery options and seeking market input into requirements and the commercial approach for a potential future competitive procurement.

The PND is currently undertaking a transformation programme designed to increase scalability, update/replace legacy components, and migrate to the Home Office's Law Enforcement Cloud Platform. This procurement is for a service and technical integrator to manage the 'cloud-based' PND service as well as deliver a continuous change pipeline to develop its capabilities and may also include some residual transformation activity, depending on a range of known factors influencing completion.

The purpose of this PIN is to make the market aware of an early market engagement session on 14 November 2023, hosted and facilitated virtually by Tech UK. The market engagement session is a sounding exercise to assist the Home Office develop and sense-check its requirements as well as refine and assure the Department's commercial approach to help ensure any future procurement exercise has the best chance of success.

The intent of this engagement is to:

• Understand market appetite for taking on an existing application and system - albeit transformed and updated with modernised architectural components and software applications

• Understand the market capability to take on existing 'legacy' systems, fully transformed systems, or partially transformed systems

• Connect SMEs with other SMEs and/or larger suppliers who may be interested in collaborating with each other in order to deliver a high profile area of critical national infrastructure

• Seek input for the identification, mitigation and potential management of risks throughout the procurement and contract management lifecycles.

Any organisation intending to submit an expression of interest (EOI) must be registered as a supplier with the Home Office eSourcing Portal. To register, visit the portal's login page at

https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html. Technical assistance on the use of the eSourcing Suite can be accessed via the same website.

If your company wishes to attend the market engagement session you must be prepared to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). To be issued with the NDA, you must send an EOI to both Georgina.Henley@techUK.org and Josiah.mayled@homeoffice.gov.uk. Upon receipt of the signed NDA, your attendance to the Market Briefing can be confirmed and secured.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 48610000 - Database systems
  • 72212600 - Database and operating software development services
  • 72227000 - Software integration consultancy services
  • 72228000 - Hardware integration consultancy services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UK - United Kingdom

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

N/A

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

1 April 2024


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes