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Home Office Crossing the Border Procurement 2024 - Products, services and Support (Border crossing, Helios, Border Platforms and Level 2 Support)

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BuyerHome Office
StatusClosed
Deadline31 Oct 2024
Value£195,000,000
Published25 Oct 2024

What is being bought

Crossing the Border (CtB) is the steady state services and products which controls the flow of people and services across the borders. This is done principally via the Primary Control Points, mediated by a Border Force officer, or via an e-gate indirectly supervised by an officer. Information from ports is processed by a central collection of systems, hosted in the cloud and on premise. Home Office are seeking a system management, development and associated level 2 support partner for the listed systems - Border Crossing (BX), Helios, Border Platforms and Border Crossing (BX) is made up of several parts. At the Passenger Control Point (PCP) BX allows Border Force officers to search passenger records using biometrics and documents. In addition, checks take place on the passport chip to verify its validity. In the back-office BX Tools allows Border Force officers to investigate passengers more thoroughly, either before, during or after they have crossed the border. The BX Admin tool provides authorised users with access to BX audit and performance data. Helios is a maintenance and sharing of watchlist data. This data then supports the end-to-end passenger journey - from visa applications and pre-departure checks right through to crossing the border. Borders Platforms is responsible for building and maintaining the hybrid platform which enables tenant teams (currently CtB) to effectively develop and run current and future services that keep the UK border operational. Level 2 support is in relation the Border crossing and Helios for the duration of the contract.

Delivery location

UK · UK · UK

Categories

Development of transaction processing and custom software 72232000Software support services 72261000Software development services 72262000Software support services 72261000

Lot details

BX and Helios

The Authority are seeking a system management & development partner to run, maintain and improve the Border crossing & Helios systems within an integrated product ecosystem. Border Crossing is made up of several parts. At the Passenger Control Point (PCP) Border crossing allows Border Force officers to search passenger records using biometrics and documents. In addition, checks take place on the passport chip to verify its validity. In the back-office Border crossing Tools allows Border Force officers to investigate passengers more thoroughly, either before, during or after they have crossed the border. The Border crossing Admin tool provides authorised users with access to BX audit and performance. Helios is a direct replacement of a previous system - Warning's Index (WI)/Argus, and will be used for the ingest, maintenance and sharing of watchlist data. This data then supports the end-to-end passenger journey - from visa applications and pre-departure checks right through to crossing the border. Additional information: Estimated contract value is £110 - £120 Million

Statusactive
Value£120,000,000

Borders Platforms

The Authority are seeking a system management & development partner to run, maintain and improve the Borders Platforms which sits within the Migration and Border Technology Portfolio (MBTP). Border Platforms is responsible for building and maintaining the hybrid platform which enables tenant teams (currently CtB) to effectively develop and run current and future services that keep the UK border operational. Borders Platforms vision is to provide a stable and resilient, highly reliable, and highly available platform, with a route to production for our tenant teams. Borders Platforms works closely with internal and external, third-party infrastructure providers to ensure services are operating to the highest degree of availability and provide tenants with a resilient service. This includes building and maintaining components that enable secure data as well as building capabilities to other platforms. Additional information: Estimated Contract Value £45-50M

Statusactive
Value£50,000,000

Level 2 Support for Border Crossing (BX) and Helios

The Authority are seeking a partner to provide level 2 support to ensure reliance and service of central systems, supporting a 24 hours a day 365 days a year operation, requiring high degrees of resilience and availability. The existing applications run on diverse technological stacks and have been delivered over a 3-year programme and are expected to evolve over the next 5 years in line with government policy and operational need. The system is critical national infrastructure, incorporating official and secret data sets and related processes. Additional information: Estimated value of contract is £20 - £25 million

Statusactive
Value£25,000,000

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Development of transaction processing and custom softwareNot published
2Software development servicesNot published
3Software support servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Development of transaction processing and custom software (72232000); 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 727,2981 median · 15.4 average (2,775 of 7,298 with a bid count)1.9 average (3,301 of 7,298 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer5Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK2,3001 median · 32.4 average (775 of 2,300 with a bid count)2.8 average (991 of 2,300 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)119264 median · 264 average (1 of 119 with a bid count)39 average (1 of 119 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 requirementNo
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
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.

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.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04b18b
Latest release ID034734-2024
Latest release timestampFri Oct 25 2024 15:01:07 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2024-10-31
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: start2024-11-14T17:00:00Z
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailshttps://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£195,000,000
Tender lots in source3
Tender items in source3
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
25 Oct 2024tender034734-2024

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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