Official UK procurement notice
Provision of OSINT Screening for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
Authority: Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime (Central government)·On behalf of: BlueLight Commercial Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBlueLight Commercial (Tendering Authority) on behalf of The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Contracting Authority) (together the Authorities) issued a Further Competition to award a Call-Off Contract for the Provision of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Social Medial Screening Capabilities.
This Further Competition was conducted under the Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Software for Social Media Screening Framework Reference BLC0288.
The Metropolitan Police are looking to purchase Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) software to conduct open source checks. The Open Source Analysis will need to conduct comprehensive and automated open-source searching for adverse activity over any time frame retained by the source, using identifying application information provided by users.
The Contract Term will be for a period of 3 years with two x 12 month optional extensions.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award under framework
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Call-off under a framework
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Jul 2026, 10:27 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 10:38 BST
- Authority reference
BLC0327- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091308- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ce87Find a Tender
- Call-off under framework BLC0288 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Social Media Screening Capabilities Framework
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Jul 2026 → 28 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Standstill ends86 days ago29 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Notice published25 days ago28 Sept 2026, 10:38 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Jul 2026- Contract award notice published20 Jul 2026, 10:27 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected30 Jul 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published28 Sept 2026, 10:38 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEOTAS LIMITEDBLC0327 Provision of OSINT Screening for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)3 Aug 2026 – 2 Aug 2029 · up to 2 Aug 2031Extensions: Two x 12 months optional extensions | £6,761,250 | 17 Jul 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Provision of OSINT Screening for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) · NEOTAS LIMITED
- Signed
- 24 Aug 2026
- Value
- £6,761,250
- Period
- 24 Aug 2026 – 13 Dec 2029 · up to 13 Dec 2031 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- Two x 12 month optional extensions
9 agreed KPIs: Implementation · Management Information · System Availability …
- Implementation, All Implementations must be delivered on time to the timescales set out and agreed between the Supplier and each Contracting Authority as detailed in the implementation plan. Implementation of the software is accepted as completed when the software is accepted as operational by the Contracting Authority. Calculation methodology = (Delivered on time/total number of call off orders)
- Management Information, Management Information shared in full within 10 days of the reporting period. Calculation methodology = (on time reports / total reports)
- System Availability, Availability of the system (excluding planned downtime - notified to the Contracting Authority in advance) within a quarter. Uptime Percentage = (Uptime hours / total hours in period) * 100)
- Service Requests - Initial Response, Number of service requests meeting initial response time within quarter / total number of service requests logged within a quarter.
- Service Requests - Resolved on Time, Number of service requests meeting SLA resolution time within quarter / total number of service requests logged within quarter.
- P1 Requests - Missed Resolution Time, Number of requests recorded as Priority 1 which miss target resolution time in quarter / total number of Priority 1 service requests logged within a quarter.
- P2 - Missed Resolution Time, Number of requests recorded as Priority 2 which miss target resolution time in quarter / total number of Priority 2 service requests logged within quarter.
- P3 - Missed Resolution Time, Number of requests recorded as Priority 3 which miss target resolution time in quarter / total number of Priority 3 service requests logged within quarter.
- Social Value, Within 3 months of commencement of the Service Level Agreement, the Supplier shall register their organisation on the NetPositive Social Value Action Planning Tool (https://police.net-positive.org/) and create an action plan detailing their social value commitments and actions. As a minimum, the Supplier must update their action plan annually with progress and evidence of delivery.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- BLUELIGHT COMMERCIAL LIMITEDProcuring entityConducted procurement process on behalf of the Contracting Authority
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- NEOTAS LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender