Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 11 Feb 2026, 09:26 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

MPS Command and Control 'Run' Service Support

Authority: Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Central government)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£100,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 1 Jan 2038 · starts 1 Jan 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Opportunity for Command-and-Control Live Operations Run Support Services.

Command and Control is a hybrid Cloud solution, where On Premise elements are deployed across 2 x MPS-owned data centres and where Cloud hosting is UK Azure. Key Solution are provided by Frequentis (lifeX), Hexagon (OnCall, OnCall Planning and Response, OnCall Mobile Responder) and Microsoft (PowerBI).

CPV: Software-related services · System and support services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up

Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerMayor's Office For Policing And Crime · division 72
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 18 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
11%—

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 of 12 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
75%—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 23 decided notices · market: no decision dates published
54 days—

Half of these awards were announced within 54 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 21 of 27 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
78%—

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer28 lots with bid counts · all categories
29% had one bid
The marketNo bid counts published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
1 bid29%
Buyer: 8 of 28 lots with published bid counts.
2–336%
Buyer: 10 of 28 lots with published bid counts.
4–625%
Buyer: 7 of 28 lots with published bid counts.
7+11%
Buyer: 3 of 28 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer18 lots with estimate and award · all categories
6% below estimate
The marketNo estimate-and-award pairs published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
Below estimate6%
Buyer: 1 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%89%
Buyer: 16 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate6%
Buyer: 1 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 7226120 monthsPublished estimate£100m
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 73 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% single-bid risk
Past bids on 73 similar lots
1 bid27%
20 of 73 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–330%
22 of 73 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–621%
15 of 73 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+22%
16 of 73 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £100m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
11 Feb 2026, 09:26 GMT
Last source update
11 Feb 2026, 09:36 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-012206
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software-related servicesSystem and support services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064d60 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

11 Feb 2026 → 1 Jan 2028 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published251 days ago
    11 Feb 2026, 09:26 GMT
  2. Market engagement228 days ago
    5 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Pre-registration for the initial PME for this opportunity is open until Friday 13th February. Full documentation available from Friday 13th February and will close for responses at 12 noon on Thursday 5th March.

    A completed NDA is required to access the full PME documents.

    To register as a prospective Supplier to the MPS complete the Coupa Registration here: supplier.coupahost.com/sessions/new ↗

    Registered suppliers can access the NDA and PME event here:

    identity-prd0-eu10002.io.coupahost.com/realms/e979a2a2-25bf… ↗

    (event ID: 2576)

    Additional information can be obtained from the above address.

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Contract starts
    1 Jan 2028

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Feb 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Feb 2026, 09:26 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Feb 2026, 09:36 GMT
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PTMT-7816-YCQG 169 Union Street, London, London, SE1 0LLContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure