Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-12-03
Buyer: Metropolitan Police Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 24000000 | 35000000: Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment
Estimated value: 5600000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-01-13
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The authority is seeking contractor/s for the supply and delivery of traceable liquids, property marking and associated goods and services.
Lot 1: Traceable liquid property marking (residential and business kits) and associated goods and services;
The MPS/Authority is seeking through this tendering process to award a framework agreement with suitably capable bidder(s) to provide these goods and services for an initial term of 36 months and a unilateral option of the MPS/authority to extend for further periods of 12 months up to a maximum of 48 months.
This requirement is for property marking products and support services to allow the dual approach of both marking property and the fast time ability to identify marked property.
The requirement includes a variety of marking kits making use of Forensic Traceable Liquid. The aim being that the police can issue kits in key hot spots across London to support the local community in marking their home and business possessions that can later be identifiable and tracked back to owners if stolen.
The framework agreement is potentially an ongoing requirement and will therefore may require renewal.
Information is provided in the invitation to tender documents available in EU Supply eTendering portal (Ref: 37683).
The authority is seeking a contractor to provide forensic tagging spray and associated services. The requirement is for a hand-held spray canister that can be used to spray suspects with a Forensic Traceable Liquid.
The objective of this is to be able to assist police with the identification of suspects. These suspects can be sprayed with a traceable liquid as they make-off from the police and when the suspects later come to the attention of the police, the spray marks can be found upon them, or their property. Marks can subsequently be forensically analysed to establish which spray canister they came from. Police records will then be used to identify the time, date and reported crime relating to use of the canister connecting the relevant information to support core frontline policing activities.
Forensic spray tagging was only recently adopted by the MPS as a tactical option to help identify suspects involved in powered-2-wheeler (P2W (e.g. mopeds/scooters/motorcycles)) criminality. This was in response to a significant rise in P2W enabled crime, which is affecting all 32 London Boroughs. The MPS are always reviewing tactical options and responding to changes in crime types.
The authority/MPS may, during the life of the contract, look to develop its strategy in the deployment of forensic tagging of suspects for other crime types. It is not yet known if or how the spray tagging will be advantageous in other tactical methods in the future.
— a hand-held canister that sprays a traceable liquid substance onto persons and property that can be identified under a UV light.
The framework agreement is potentially an ongoing requirement and will therefore may require renewal.
Information is provided in the invitation to tender documents available in EU Supply eTendering portal (Ref: 37683).
Bicycle, cycle and bike are terms all used within this document when referring to non-motorised vehicle consisting of 2 wheels in a frame 1 behind the other propelled by pedals and steered with handlebars attached to the front wheel.

Eligibility requirements: Specification and requirements information is provided in the invitation to tender documents. For full details please register on the Metropolitan Police Service eTendering portal: EU Supply (eu-supply.com) to access all tender documentation (Ref: 37683).

Award value: 5600000