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Enabling Services Strategic Review

Buyer: The Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police →

BuyerThe Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published6 Feb 2026

What is being bought

Pre-Market Engagement (PME) Background Thames valley Police (TVP) is the largest non-metropolitan police force in the country and polices the counties of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. It also provides services to a number of other forces under collaborative arrangements. The force employs nearly 10,000 officers and staff. TVP, like so many organisations, is looking to improve the quality and efficiency of the services that the People and Financial Directorates and the Tasking & Resilience department (our Enabling Services) provide to the Force and their wider stakeholder requirements. The Enabling Services are therefore looking to transform the quality of the services it provides in terms of ensuring an excellent customer experience whilst also creating much greater insights to allow the Force to make better decisions. This is all against the backdrop of needing to reduce non-value-added costs and so deliver cashable savings to the Force. The Force are looking to appoint by competitive process a strategic partner who can ensure we use our current systems to deliver on our ambitions. Work to date has identified 3 essential first stage requirements. • the implementation of a Transactional service centre • Experience in building change programmes alongside the implementation of an integrated IT solution incorporating ITSM, CRM (incl CMDM) and Agentic AI and a single customer front end portal. • The ability for improved decision making by ensuring that there is appropriate and accurate data/information available at the time required in a format to support decision makers. • We are looking to appoint a strategic partner capable of delivering not just short-term change but to change the capabilities and culture of the organisation to ensure that continuous improvement becomes a core skill. This will mean that the Force's Enabling Services can manage change as an evolutionary internal process and not need to engage external consultancy support in the future. This will include a set of clear and achievable recommendations as to changes in the structure and delivery mechanisms for change management process and management within the Force. Customer focus and Data maturity sit alongside efficiency. Followed by a Stage 2 Data Integration (this will be based upon the CMDB integration system. Budget for the entire project across all phases will be in the region of £4m-£5m.

Delivery location

UKI, GB · UKJ, GB

Categories

Project management consultancy services 72224000System quality assurance assessment and review services 72225000Administrative services for business operations 75112000Business development consultancy services 79411100Human resources management consultancy services 79414000Project-supervision services other than for construction work 79421100Project-design services other than for construction work 79421200

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Jul 2026 to 30 Jun 2027
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Project management consultancy services, System quality assurance assessment and review services, Administrative services for business operations, Business development consultancy services, Human resources management consultancy services, Project-supervision services other than for construction work, Project-design services other than for construction workNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Project management consultancy services (72224000); 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 725,9791 median · 14.4 average (2,178 of 5,979 with a bid count)1.9 average (2,596 of 5,979 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer3Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI4991 median · 13.8 average (199 of 499 with a bid count)2.4 average (239 of 499 with named award suppliers)Not 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 requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Event Details: Date: Early March 2026 Time: Individual timeslots to be confirmed - Please confirm any dates that you CANNOT attend Duration: 60-90 minutes Please confirm your availability and provide a short summary of your relevant experience by Noon 18th February 2026 to Rob.Hillier@thamesvalley.police.uk. We will then confirm your allocated MS-Teams slot to present to TVP. Further information relating to this project and requirements for presentations can be found in the link below. https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/police-forces/thames-valley-police/areas/au/about-us/our-people/departments-and-teams/procurement/engagement18 Feb 2026scheduled

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-060eb5
Latest release ID010771-2026
Latest release timestampFri Feb 06 2026 09:31:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
6 Feb 2026planningUpdate010771-2026
26 Jan 2026planning006716-2026

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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