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Holmes Investigation Application

Buyer: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside →

BuyerThe Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside

StatusAwarded

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published23 Dec 2025

What is being bought

HOLMES stands for Home Office Large Major Enquiry System. It is a secure, cloud-based application used by UK police forces to manage complex and large-scale investigations.

Delivery location

UKE

Lot details

Lot 1

HOLMES stands for Home Office Large Major Enquiry System. It is a secure, cloud-based application used by UK police forces to manage complex and large-scale investigations.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (72000000); 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 set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 72	10,539	2 median · 15.4 average (4,161 of 10,539 with a bid count)	2 average (5,053 of 10,539 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	15	1 median · 1.3 average (14 of 15 with a bid count)	1 average (15 of 15 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Delivery region: UKE	445	1 median · 12 average (199 of 445 with a bid count)	2.4 average (228 of 445 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 rationaleDirect Award from the CCS G-Cloud 14 Framework Reference RM1557.14

Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

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.

Awards

085757-2025-1

Statusactive

SupplierUnisys Limited

Contracts

085757-2025-1

Statusactive

Value£312,243

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-05dfd8
Latest release ID	085757-2025
Latest release timestamp	Tue Dec 23 2025 11:33:10 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	complete
Procurement method	limited
Procurement method details	Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	32014L0024
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	1
Contracts in latest release	1
Parties in latest release	3

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
23 Dec 2025	award, contract	085757-2025
12 Nov 2025	award, contract	073284-2025

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

23 Dec 2025 · 085757-2025 · award, contract

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12 Nov 2025 · 073284-2025 · award, contract

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Holmes Investigation Application

What is being bought

Delivery location

Categories

Lot details

Lot 1

What is included

Comparable-procurement analytics

Price-outcome signal

Procurement strategy & market signals

Planning & early market engagement

Related procurements

Awards

085757-2025-1

Contracts

085757-2025-1

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Notice history

All source data