Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-10-11
Buyer: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 72222300: Information technology services
Estimated value: 28000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The provision of additional services relating to the establishment of a National Management Centre and Cyber Security Operating Centre, to enable the co-ordination and interface between police forces, the National Management Centre and protective monitoring service through a national support team. Also the provision of an enhanced monitoring service to Forces, to offer a better, more integrated monitoring system by providing interlocked security with the availability of network end points (e.g. switches/routers) and additional other applications (such as HR system, door access systems, etc.).
The East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit (EMSCU) has previously completed a compliant EU tender exercise under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 on behalf of the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens for the City of London (the ‘Contracting Authority’) to establish a National Management Centre (‘NMC’) and Cyber Security Operating Centre (‘SOC’) for a period of 5 years from 16.11.2018. Following the completion of this procurement, BT plc (having submitted the most economically advantageous tender) was awarded a contract to deliver the NMC and the SOC. Through a nationally coordinated, locally delivered, NMC, forces will have access to a centre of excellence with the ability to manage internal and external threats, and enhance legislative compliance. At a national level, a holistic understanding of threats across the 48 police forces will be used to proactively defend critical networks and systems in a coordinated manner and continuously baseline the cyber risk management position of each force.
As was anticipated in the original procurement, the implementation of the NMC is (and will continue to be) an evolutionary process that builds on incremental improvements in technologies, processes and staff training. As part of that evolution, the Contracting Authority now wishes to expand the services being provided by BT to more comprehensively address the risks and threats which have been identified and deliver an enhanced service for the benefit of national security throughout all forces. The expanded services will therefore now include the following additional elements:
1) The co-ordination and interface between police forces, the NMC and protective monitoring service through a national support team (NST); and
2) An enhanced monitoring service to forces, offering a better, more integrated monitoring system by providing interlocked security with the availability of Network end points (e.g. switches/routers) and additional other applications (such as HR system, door access systems etc.).
From a cost perspective, the additional services identified above will increase the value of the contract which is currently in place with BT by 7 000 000 GBP per annum (5 000 000 GBP for the NST and 2 000 000 GBP for the enhanced
Monitoring support). This equates to a total increase of 28 000 000 GBP over the remaining lifetime of the contract.
Total value of the contract including original and additional element is 55 000 000,00 GBP (27 000 000 GBP 2018/S 227-519755 + 28 000 000 GBP This VEAT).
The contracting authority relies on the ground set out within Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) (Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. For technical reasons, the services can be provided only by a particular tenderer, namely BT plc. This is because BT is providing the NMC and SOC as part of its core service delivery. The additional services described in this VEAT notice are intrinsically linked to the delivery of the NMC and SOC. Given the complex nature of the policing technology landscape and the development and end to end journey of the national enabling programme, the only viable option is to interlock the National Support Team with the BT Cyber Security Centre in order to preserve the end to end cyber incident process. This service can only be provided by the present supplier of the NMC because of the infrastructure and security constraints. However, at the end of the current BT contract period the whole NMC/NST knitted service can be extracted and tendered as a complete package.


Winner: BT plc
Award value: 28000000