Published date: 5 December 2023

This notice was replaced on 27 March 2024

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 27 March 2024, last edited 2 April 2024)

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

  • Industry specific software package - 48100000

  • Financial analysis software package - 48441000

    • Analytical or scientific software package - 48461000

    • Business intelligence software package - 48482000

    • Industry specific software development services - 72212100

    • Transaction-processing software development services - 72212217

    • Analytical or scientific software development services - 72212461

    • Statistical software development services - 72212463

    • Business intelligence software development services - 72212482

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£500,000 to £1,500,000

Procurement reference

tender_400107/1288230

Published date

5 December 2023

Closing date

8 January 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

31 March 2024

Contract end date

30 March 2025

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The City of London Police is looking to conduct a tender as part of the NPCC Cybercrime Programme for a Darkweb Intelligence Tool software as a service (SaaS) to be used throughout the UK by police forces, ROCUs (Regional Organised Crime Units), the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as well as other law enforcement agencies.

The City of London Police (COLP) is the police force that hosts the NPCC Cybercrime Programme.

The NPCC Cybercrime Programme is the national strategic lead in policing for Cybercrime, led by Commissioner Angela McLaren of City of London Police.

The Cybercrime Programme has led in this area since 2018 and has delivered significant strategic and operational goals. In many areas, the Cybercrime Programme has delivered world leading initiatives and our approach over previous years has resulted in significant operational success, both in terms of successful criminal convictions, but also our ability to disrupt and tackle sophisticated, financially motivated cyber criminals.

The Darkweb Intelligence tool will provide an increased level of investigative capability across the wider network by providing Darkweb investigators with current data collections (eg: web scraped) from open, deep and Darkweb sources (including other sources such as leaked forums).

Provide a user friendly web based interface for the management of cases, and to access and utilise all investigative features, such as searching, tagging, reporting. This includes advanced features that enable a granular focus the data (such as timeline filtering) or the real-time monitoring of specific artefacts / keywords.

The initial duration of the contract is 1 year, subject to the right of the City (at its sole discretion) to exercise its right to extend the term of the contract for up to two additional periods of one year in line with the published Terms and Conditions and subject to funding. Therefore, the total potential duration of the contract, including extensions, is 3 years. The City reserves the right to vary the term of the contract further in line with the published Terms and Conditions.

The City of London Police will require bidders to complete a Non-Disclosure Agreement before releasing confidential information relating to the tender.

Provide direct interoperability with existing blockchain intelligence tools.

Please note that the contract value is up to £500,000 per annum in line with the published Tender Documents and the published Terms & Conditions.

More information

Links

Additional text

Please note that this procurement process is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system 'CapitaleSourcing' (url: www.capitalesourcing.com).

Participants should register as a supplier on the portal using the aforementioned URL/link (if not already), then search for the opportunity titled using the Reference number stated below.

The estimated total value of the contract is stated in the Summary Information section of this notice and is exclusive of VAT and for the initial duration, including all the potential optional requirements as described within the tender documents.

The procurement is being run as a one stage process under the open procedure and therefore, if your organisation would like to participate in this tender exercise, it can by completing and returning the Qualification Envelope and the Invitation To Tender (ITT) questionnaire which can be found on the City's e-procurement portal at: www.capitalesourcing.com with the Reference number: prj_COL_23060 or itt_COL_17764.

Organisations must submit their completed Qualification Envelope and Invitation to Tender (ITT) questionnaire together with any supporting documents, via the system by the return deadline in order to participate and registration is free. Qualification Envelopes and Invitation to Tender (ITT) questionnaires cannot be uploaded after the return deadline.

The contracting authority will not be held accountable for any errors made by an organisation in submitting their applicable Qualification Envelopes and Invitation to Tender (ITT) questionnaires.

The contracting authority reserves the right at any time to vary the timescales in this notice, cease the procurement process and not award the agreement or to award only part of the opportunity described in this notice. If the contracting authority takes up any of these rights then it will not be responsible for, or pay the expenses or losses, which may be incurred by any candidate or tenderer as a result. Economic operators are solely responsible for their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation of their tender submissions and all stages throughout the procurement. Under no circumstances will the contracting authority be liable for costs or expense borne by the economic operators.

The procurement process that will apply to the requirement is specified in the procurement documents
accordingly.

About the buyer

Address

The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London Guildhall, PO Box 270
London
EC2P 2EJ
England

Email

aga.watt@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Website

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk