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715663452 - Holmes 2 - UK5 - Transparency Notice

Ministry of Defence · Transparency notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 30 Sept 2026, 10:36.

Opportunity overview

Provision of HOLMES 2 application to set up a Major Incident Room (“MIR”) functionality within the ModNet (Secret) Cloud. Within Defence, the Service Justice System is required to operate in accordance with the Armed Forces Act 2006 and the Laws of England and Wales. This includes operating to College of Policing guidelines: Major Incident Room Standardised Administrative Procedures 2021 (MIRSAP 2021) and the Major Crime Investigation Manual 2021 (MCIM 2021), which lay out how serious and complex crime must be investigated. Unisys HOLMES 2 is the only system accredited by the NPCC (National Police Chiefs Council) for the purpose of setting up MIRs. The MIR is the repository for all material gathered from the public, enquiry officers and other sources. It is managed using standardised administrative procedures and supports the Senior Investigating Officer to direct and control the investigation. As such, the Service Justice System is held up against the same levels of scrutiny as other Home Office Police Forces and hence the required application must enable the Service Prosecuting Authority and Military Court Service to obtain the same performance data as the Crown Prosecution Service and His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service in order to be compliant with Home Office and College of Policing Standards. The Defence Serious Crime Command (DSCC) is establishing a MIR which requires a system for gathering and processing evidence which is SUKEO (Secret UK Eyes Only). The HOLMES 2 application has been developed by Unisys (built on the Unisys Law Enforcement Application Framework (U-LEAF) and is a bespoke application designed to meet the complex requirements of MIR Standard Administrative Procedures (“MIRSAP 2021”) in line with the unique technical requirements for investigating serious, complex crimes/incidents.

Awarded to

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Unisys

Matched by number
Published award value
£491.3k
Awarded
Not supplied
Award ID
1
Status
pending
Identifier
GB-COH 00103709
Location
Milton Keynes, UKJ12, MK17 8LX, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-05a9e7
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
The contract award is based on: Procurement Act 2023 Regulation 41 Sch.5 Para. 6: A) due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only a particular supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and B)there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works. The HOLMES 2 application is the only accredited UK national application for investigating complex crime and is accredited by the Home Office. Unique technical features of HOLMES 2 include but are not limited to: - Searching: Comes with a comprehensive search facility that allows the user to query structured and unstructured data captured during an investigation. - Incident Linking: Ability to run searches across linked incidents. - Exhibit/Property Management: Enables recording of property found or seized during an investigation and preparation and production of forensic submission forms and receipts. - Disaster Victim Identification compliant with Interpol standards. - Associations: Maintains relevant links between all records, documents and tasks created or captured as a part of an investigation incident. The user can also define if these associations/links are provisional, time-bound, or high importance/relevance to the entity. The user also has the capability to highlight certain associations and include these in the entity profile. - Tag Management: Tagging provides a facility to link a group of entities and documents to multiple common lines of enquiry or themes. It also facilitates flexible classification and grouping of related records through user configurable themes. - Disclosure & Case Preparation: Disclosure of unused prosecution material is supported, and documents can be redacted for Court purposes. Preparation of multiple case files for Disclosure, court files and use of different templates as may be required by the different geographical regions are supported. - Covert Operations. Provides ability to run a covert investigation within the system. - Digital Evidence Vault and Management Store through the Holmes 2 DAMS (Digital Asset Management System) - captures and aggregates all types of imagery – stills, video, audio, multimedia and disk images whilst maintaining the integrity of stored materials. Stores content from multiple channels (forensic imagery, ad-hoc imagery, Taser-cam / wearable video, CCTV/IP camera, in-car video, interview/observation rooms, and public imagery) to a single back-end secure IT system. - Ensures chain of custody of evidence through preservation of original assets with an audit trail

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published
Document Type
conflictOfInterest

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PHVX-4316-ZVGZ
Name
Ministry of Defence

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKM82
Country
GB
Locality
Glasgow
Postal Code
G2 8EX
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - central government

Identifier

Id
PHVX-4316-ZVGZ
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Organisation 2
Id
GB-COH-00103709
Name
Unisys

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UKJ12
Country
GB
Locality
Milton Keynes
Postal Code
MK17 8LX
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
ENIGMA, Wavendon Business Park

Details

Vcse
No
Scale
large

Identifier

Id
00103709
Scheme
GB-COH

Contact

Telephone
01895 237137

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Status
pending
Has Options
Yes
Has Renewal
Yes
Above Threshold
Yes
Main Procurement Category
services

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
72512000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Document management services

Value

Amount
491,269
Currency
GBP
Including VAT
589,523

Options

Description
1 Year Optional Extension to Nov 2029

Renewal

Description
1 Year Optional Extension to Nov 2029

Documents

Entry 1
Id
063020-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK5
Description
Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
awardNotice
Published
7 Oct 2025, 16:35

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-00103709
Name
Unisys

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Status
scheduled
Due
21 Oct 2025, 23:59

Related lots

1

Contract period

Ends
28 Nov 2028, 23:59
Starts
28 Nov 2025, 00:00
Max Extent Date
28 Nov 2029, 23:59

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Glasgow · UKM82 · G2 8EX · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-05a9e7-2025-10-07T16:35:52+01:00Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·