Official UK procurement notice
Unified Operational Analytics · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contracting Authority ('Authority') in relation to this notice is the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), on behalf of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) are seeking to engage with potential suppliers on a significant and strategic procurement covering the delivery of operational analytics to support a broad range of policing-specific use cases. The programme will be known as Unified Operational Analytics (UOA).
UOA aims to source an enterprise solution to embed market leading analytical tools and capabilities directly into core operational workflows, rather than point-solutions targeting separate and siloed functions that result in slow change cycles. The solution will need to deliver real time operational insight, advanced analytics, and faster decision making at the point where they have the greatest impact on policing outcomes. Ultimately, providing speed to efficiencies.
Technically, the MPS foresee an analytics solution which enables fast back-end integrations, the transformation of data insight by bringing together existing, unlinked data, and improved workflows. The ambition is to enable faster delivery, reduce technical overhead, and ensure analysts can focus on interpreting insights and supporting operational decisions. The following may be considered:
- Rapid integration of multiple, diverse, and legacy systems to deliver deeper insight on existing data.
- Full data provenance across all processes and outputs.
- AI driven efficiency gains through summarisation across operational and analytical workflows.
- Streamlined, faster delivery of tools and insights to frontline and operational teams.
The MPS are looking at a broad range of technical approaches to providing this business capability and will be interested in any efficient and effective solutions which meet the functional and implementation requirements of the MPS and are within budget constraints.
The purpose of the market engagement is to inform a procurement strategy that will be running through early 2027 to award to suppliers who can demonstrate credibility in similar services, either within policing or adjacent industries. This event is the first step in a market engagement process that will request formal detailed inputs from participants to support the development of the procurement strategy.
The event is being facilitated by TechUK, and to register for this event please go to; www.techuk.org/what-we-deliver/even… ↗ Attendance at the event will require signature of a standard NDA between the MPS and your organisation by Wednesday 23 September at the very latest, which will be facilitated directly between MPS Commercial teams and yourself. Due to the nature of the content of this procurement, signature of this standard NDA (i.e. no amendments) is a prerequisite for your company's attendance at this event.
Please note that by registering to attend this session you consent to your name, email address and organisation being shared with the MPS for the sole purpose of administering and delivering this event.
Please also note, there will be a limit of one physical attendee per organisation at the event in London, but more attendees can attend virtually.
Indicative Scope
We are seeking suppliers who have experience in providing the following types of services:
- UK Sovereign data and analytics services, within policing or adjacent industries.
- Data, AI & Analytics capabilities and services that support complex work and high volumes of data to drive business process efficiency, decision support and improved productivity
- Data connections to a wide range of structured and unstructured data sources to deploy Data, AI & Analytics capabilities
- An evidential model which can deliver at pace - working collaboratively with the MPS business to deliver the outcomes required
- A solution which can deliver to the various operational outcomes required by UK policing
This is an indicative, not an exhaustive, list of services that we may seek to procure as part of this procurement process. We may also elect to procure this through multiple (parallel) procurement activities.
Purpose of the event
The event will provide potential suppliers with:
- An overview of the MPS' business context and efficiency drivers for this procurement
- Example use cases against which the services will need to perform
- The timeline and objectives
- An opportunity to provide feedback, ask questions and discuss market insights to support the MPS approach.
Following the event, suppliers who express an interest may also be invited to participate in a more detailed Market Sounding Questionnaire (MSQ) written exercise to formalise capabilities and potential solutions / approaches. This process will take place through October 2026.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
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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.
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 1 Sept 2026, 11:36 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Sept 2026, 11:36 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-082559- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ef57Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Sept 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published55 days ago1 Sept 2026, 11:36 BST
- Market engagement33 days ago23 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
The Engagement for this opportunity is split into three stages:
- Attendance at a Market Engagement (ME) session from 10:00am- 12:00pm on 1st October 2026. This will be an in-person and broadcast session on Teams by the Authority to elaborate the scope of provision with the opportunity for interested parties to ask questions.
- Completion of a response to the Market Sounding Questionnaire (MSQ) to assist the Authority in evolving its thinking and approach.
- The procurement itself, which is subject to a UK4 Request to Participate (Tender Notice)
To register your interest please register via TechUK under www.techuk.org/what-we-deliver/even… ↗ listing the full name of your organisation; whether your interest is likely to be as a primary Bidder, consortia member or subcontractor; and attendees' details (including name, role, contact telephone number and email address). This will enable TechUK and the Authority to invite you to the ME event.
The deadline for requests to be invited to the market engagement session is 17:00:00 (GMT) on 23 September 2026.
The Market Engagement (ME) session will be from 10:00am - 12:00pm on 1st October 2026. A Microsoft Teams link will be sent to the attendees.
The event will cover the following agenda items:
- Welcome from Chief Digital and Innovation Officer (CDIO)
- Current business operations and potential use cases
- Overview of the scope of services required
- Commercial Approach
- Timeline
- Potential Bidder Q&A
- Close
Please note that the ME session will be recorded on Teams and will be included in any subsequent Data Room created following the issue of the UK4 Request to Participate (Tender Notice).
Suppliers can access this event via www.techuk.org/what-we-deliver/even… ↗
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 95 days29 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 247 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Sept 2026, 11:36 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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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