Metropolitan Police tenders for £150m integrated policing system

The Met wants a single supplier to deliver a wide range of services in a 10-year contract

The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has tendered for the provision of a "Met Integrated Policing Solution" (MiPS) on behalf of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).

It said that the selected commercial off-the-shelf product would deliver "a single integrated, unified, operational policing system that managed information end-to-end business policing processes in relation to investigation, detention (custody), intelligence and case management".

The Met Police is looking for a single supplier to deliver these services in a 10-year deal worth between £80m and £150m.

In a tender notice, MOPAC said its requirement was for a resilient, high availability solution for key modules that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and that can flexibly meet dynamic resource demands of policing London.

The key services it is looking for as part of the procurement include: integrated licences for Investigation, Custody, Intelligence and Prosecution; provision of third line support call-handling and management system integrated with the Met's SIAM service provider Atos; implementation and data migration, testing services integrated with the Met's service delivery and integration management provider; the development of interfaces and APIs and training planning, administration and delivery.

It said it was also looking for mobility option "if it meets the high expectations and needs of the organisation and matches the MPS's requirements as described".

In addition, the Met is looking for two hosting options - one mandatory option to install and operate the solution from MPS-nominated data centres and another "desirable" option that includes the provision of secure data centre hosting.

"The purpose of this optional requirement is to allow the authority to choose to move to a cloud-hosted option before or at the end of the initial term if it is deemed appropriate," MOPAC explained.

The authority said it was also considering how it would deliver ICT operational support in the future which could be integrated into the MiPS platform. It said that the supplier may therefore be required to provide a range of additional functionality to match the authority's needs including: management of troubled families, biometric capabilities, complex analytics, digital forensics investigation, public access portals and extended customer relationship management.

Suppliers who are interested in bidding for the contract should respond to the tender by May 6.