Official UK procurement notice
PME - NBCC Retail Crime Fusion Cell
Authority: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) is looking for information from the market on technical solutions to bring together intellligence and information from retailers and retail partners to more precisely and efficiently allocate policing resources against retail crime.
The RCFC (Retail Crime Fusion Cell) is the central intelligence hub of the Tackling Retail Crime Together strategy, ensuring a unified, data driven national response. It integrates police and industry data to create the UK’s most comprehensive picture of retail crime, accessible through a shared, self service intelligence portal.
The NBCC will own the RCFC which will be hosted by Opal on behalf of national policing. The function will be to facilitate the sharing of data and creating operational packs for police forces which provides real time insight on crime trends, offender behaviour, high harm locations and organised crime links, enabling targeted operational and strategic action.
The private sector will fund the platform and a police staff post. The police contribution is facilitating the collaboration platform – albeit we won’t actually ‘own’ the platform or be the Data Controller. Policing will fill the funded post with a data analyst/ scientist to produce assessments of the problem.
Operating under strict security controls, the RCFC enhances collaboration across policing and retail—strengthening efforts to disrupt organised crime groups and manage prolific offenders. It does not replace existing systems; it unifies and amplifies them, acting as the intelligence layer that connects the entire retail crime ecosystem.
Please note that this is not a call for competition.No response to this PME exercise will exclude any supplier from a potential procurement exercise.
CPV: Networking, Internet and intranet software development services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 60 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid6% / 0%
2–324% / 25%
4–636% / 25%
7+34% / 50%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate65% / 50%
Within ±2%19% / 50%
Above estimate17% / 0%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7221Published estimate£400k
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1 bid8%
2–331%
4–631%
7+29%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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
- 26 Mar 2026, 08:54 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Mar 2026, 08:54 GMT
- Authority reference
prj_998/pqq_68- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-027631- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067476Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Mar 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published211 days ago26 Mar 2026, 08:54 GMT
- Market engagement189 days ago16 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
The City seeks input from the contractor market to understand what might be the most attractive way of packaging and scoping a future procurement opportunity to deliver the project outcomes.
This Pre-Market Engagement (PME) exercise will provide an opportunity for the City to obtain insight into how contractors might approach the delivery of the project. It also gives a useful early insight into the likely level of interest in a proposed project from the market.
Interested organisations will be asked to complete and return a brief questionnaire. To access the PME questionnaire and supporting documentation, please register on the electronic tendering system 'City of London Corporation Sourcing & Contracts Portal' url:
cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗ and search for 'NBCC Retail Crime Fusion Cell'.
Organisations should submit their completed questionnaire in accordance with the instructions set out in the PME documentation, by the return deadline of 12:00pm (noon/midday) on 16th April 2026.
Following receipt and review of questionnaires, the project team may conduct further direct discussions with organisations of interest
- Tender notice expected143 days ago1 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts114 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Mar 2026, 08:54 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender