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Communications and Digital Data Exploitation Solution

Buyer: The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex →

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BuyerThe Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex
StatusOpen
Deadline21 Sept 2026
Value£2,374,000
Published25 Aug 2026

What is being bought

This Invitation to Tender (“ITT”) has been issued by The Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex, acting also on behalf of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey, who are seeking to award a Contract for the provision of Communication and Digital Data Exploitation Solution. The Requirement will be tendered as a Single Lot. The Contract Term shall be for a period of 3 years with the option to extend by a further 5 x 12-month extensions at the discretion of the Authority. The organisations that will be named on this Contract are: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex The Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey The anticipated commencement date of the Contract] is 1st December 2026. Any changes to this commencement date will be communicated to all bidders through the contracting authority’s e-Procurement Portal It is a mandatory requirement that the successful solution is currently the principal communications data analysis solution for at least 12 UK law enforcement organisations (representing 20% of the 60 organisations comprising 45 territorial police forces, BTP, MOD Police, Civil Nuclear Constabulary, 9 ROCUs, the NCA, the TOEX network, and Counter-Terrorism Policing) Values stated in this notice include the 5 years of extensions based on the current understanding of the budget available.

Categories

Miscellaneous software package and computer systems 48900000Information technology services 72222300Public security, law and order services 75240000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
ValueAED 2,374,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Dec 2026 to 30 Nov 2029

Award criteria
Technical Criteria — Bidders will be assessed on their ability to meet functional and non functional requirements. (10%)
Quality — Bidders will be assessed based on their response to a series of quality questions (45%)
Pricing — Bidders will be assessed based on the commercial response provided against a pricing envelope (40%)
Social Value — Bidders will be assessed based on their responses to two social value questions (5%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Miscellaneous software package and computer systems, Information technology services, Public security, law and order servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is Miscellaneous software package and computer systems (48900000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 483,4311 median · 6.2 average (1,138 of 3,431 with a bid count)1.5 average (1,300 of 3,431 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer7Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)251Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsRisk of need to increase or decrease the number of users of the system Timeframe to implement will be tight and therefore there may be a need to delay the contract start until Implementation is complete.

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06ebb0
Latest release ID080930-2026
Latest release timestampTue Aug 25 2026 14:36:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080930-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-09-21T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-09-05T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-10-12T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsThose wishing to access the Tender pack and bid for this opportunity must register on the following website: https://sell2.in-tend.co.uk/blpd/register Once registered, please follow these steps to link to Sussex Police: • Sign in to the portal: Sell2 (https://sell2.in-tend.co.uk/blpd/home) • Click ‘Portals’ • Find Sussex Police on the list and click the register with organisation button. You should then we be able to access the opportunity which has been published on the Sussex portal.
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,374,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
25 Aug 2026tender080930-2026
25 Aug 2026planning080897-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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