Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-08-11
Buyer: Police ICT Company
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 48100000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 30000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Procurement of Minerva Consultancy Technical Support Lot 1 Maximising Existing and Upcoming NicheRMS Functionality
The Police ICT Company has undertaken a compliant EU tender exercise to establish a national DPS framework agreement for the provision of Procurement of Minerva Consultancy Technical Support Lot 1 Maximising Existing and Upcoming NicheRMS Functionality. This VEAT expands to include the now 26 Forces who are part of the Minerva Programme, up from 25. These are; Avon and Somerset, British Transport Police, Cheshire, City of London, Cleveland, Derbyshire, Devon and Cornwall, Dorset, Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, North Wales, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, PSNI, South Wales, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire.
Minerva is a collaboration of currently 26 UK Police Forces that use the Niche RMS as their primary records management system. Historically each Force implemented the system independently, resulting in each deployment being slightly different with different modules utilised and often configured differently.
— police forces across the UK are operating on a super-resilient and secure information technology allowing officers to gain instant access to high quality intelligence and operational information that has no geographical constraints,
To achieve this vision a 6-year plan has been approved by Minerva Forces, which requires Forces to cluster into Hubs, such as that already implemented in the East Midlands and City of London and the North West Tri Force collaboration and move from the current 15 platforms the 26 Forces are working from, with an intent to move to 6-7 Hubs. Each Hub will have a very similar build and configuration that will facilitate the ability to converge to a single database, build and configuration externally hosted, or the ability for each Force to access other Forces data through a Hub to Hub interNiche solution.
In addition an increased Minerva Delivery Team is being created to take over responsibility for the development of new functionality moving forward utilising a development environment being deployed by Niche Technologies. This team will have responsibility for all Requests for Change (RFC) from writing the specification requirements, getting national sign off, liaising with Niche Technologies and then testing for readiness for a first force to implement.
Note the main CPV code of the original contract notice has changed due to a re-classification by the European Commission.
Procurement of Minerva Consultancy Technical Support Lot 1 — Maximising Existing and Upcoming NicheRMS Functionality
Procurement of Minerva Consultancy Technical Support Lot 1 — Maximising Existing and Upcoming Niche RMS Functionality
Procurement of Minerva Consultancy Technical Support Lot 1 — Maximising Existing and Upcoming NicheRMS Functionality



Winner: Blue Skies Associates Ltd
Award value: 30000000