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Command and Control System - Refinement, Delivery and Maintenance Services

Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime · Transparency notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 12 Oct 2026, 14:47.

Opportunity overview

This Transparency Notice relates to the award of an Interim Contract for the provision of services for the completion of implementation, interim operational run (maintenance services) and exit/transition of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime/Metropolitan Police (the Contracting Authority) integrated Command and Control system (the System) which constitutes critical national infrastructure underpinning the emergency response and operational dispatch capability of the largest police force in the United Kingdom. This direct award of an Interim Contract is justifiable under Schedule 5, paragraphs 13 and 14 of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) (the Interim Contract), on grounds of extreme and unavoidable urgency. Under the Interim Contract, following acceptance into service, maintenance services will be provided by Frequentis and Octave (the Sub-contractors/-contracts). These Sub-contracts are for maintenance of software components which are subject to exclusive rights and locked-in rates to ensure value for money. The Sub-Contracts have a term of ten years after exit from the Interim Contract (targeted for 9-months post go live of final production release 'Drop 3'). The Interim Contract will provide for these Sub-contracts to be novated to the Contracting Authority or the Successor Managed Service Provider (the SMSP) on expiry of the Interim Contract. Value (excluding VAT) • £297m Total Contract Value Consisting of: • £165m Interim Contract (duration approx. 3.5 years) Sub-contracts • £30m Frequentis 10-year maintenance agreement • £102m Octave 10-year maintenance agreement

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

LEIDOS INNOVATIONS UK LTD

Matched by number
Published award value
£297m
Awarded
Not supplied
Award ID
1
Status
pending
Identifier
GB-COH SC112421
Location
Glasgow, UKM82, G3 8EP, 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-07859a
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
Interim Contract Justification: Paragraphs 13 and 14 of PA23: The Contracting Authority's existing legacy Command and Control system is provided by Unisys under a contract expiring in October 2029. In 2018/2019, the Contracting Authority contracted with Leidos Innovations UK Limited (the Supplier) to deliver a replacement Command and Control System. A new Interim Contract is to be awarded to the Supplier to complete the delivery of the replacement System and ensure continuity of service following expiry of the Unisys contract. Extreme urgency exists as a consequence of complexities and delay in completing transformation to a new system; the Contracting Authority is unable to reprocure and implement a new contract in time to ensure continuity of this critical capability after October 2029. The Contracting Authority considers: • that it did not have reasonable means available to it, from an economic, operational and commercial point of view, to avoid the urgency that has arisen. • that the circumstances giving rise to urgency were not solely attributable to the Contracting Authority and could not have been foreseen by the Contracting Authority. The root cause lies in the underestimation, by the parties at the time of contract award in 2018/2019, of the unprecedented complexity of delivering a system of this nature; this was compounded by the impact of the Covid pandemic on the early stages of the Contract. Sub-contracts Justification: Schedule 5, Paragraph 5 of PA23: The Sub-contractors hold the intellectual property rights, source-code rights and associated proprietary rights necessary to provide supported product maintenance, defect correction, updates, patches, supported releases and related development services. The Sub-contractors also have the specialist knowledge of the Contracting Authority's specific system architecture and business logic, which cannot be replicated or substituted by an alternative provider. The Contracting Authority currently considers that only those Sub-contractors are able to provide these services and that there are no reasonable alternatives. Future Procurement - Successor Managed Service Provider A Preliminary Engagement Notice has been issued: MPS Command and Control 'Run' Service Support - Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-012206, and early market testing has taken place. Further market engagement for the SMSP contract is anticipated to commence in December 2026. The Contracting Authority shall conduct a separate competitive procurement for the SMSP as a replacement to the Interim Contract, thereby ensuring that the ongoing operational run services are subject to full market competition. The Contracting Authority shall assess which provisions of the PA23 may apply in relation to the novation of the Sub-contracts to any SMSP, including but not limited to paragraph 5 (intellectual property or other exclusive rights), paragraph 6 (absence of competition for technical reasons) or paragraph 7 (additional or repeat goods, services or works) of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023.

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
singleSuppliersIntellectualPropertyExclusiveRights
Entry 2
Id
singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons
Entry 3
Id
additionalRepeatExtensionPartialReplacement
Entry 4
Id
urgency

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Document Type
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
Id
GB-PPON-PTMT-7816-YCQG

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PTMT-7816-YCQG

Address

Street Address
169 Union Street
Locality
London
Postal Code
SE1 0LL
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKI44

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - sub-central government
Organisation 2
Name
LEIDOS INNOVATIONS UK LTD
Id
GB-COH-SC112421

Identifier

Scheme
GB-COH
Id
SC112421

Additional Identifiers

Entry 1
Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PCDJ-3768-MZYW

Address

Street Address
Skypark 1 8 Elliot Place
Locality
Glasgow
Postal Code
G3 8EP
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKM82

Contact

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale
large
Vcse
No

Award information

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

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
48000000
Description
Software package and information systems
Entry 2
Scheme
CPV
Id
72000000
Description
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKC
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 2
Region
UKD
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 3
Region
UKE
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 4
Region
UKF
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 5
Region
UKG
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 6
Region
UKH
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 7
Region
UKI
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 8
Region
UKJ
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 9
Region
UKK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Value

Including VAT
356,400,000
Amount
297,000,000
Currency
GBP

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-SC112421
Name
LEIDOS INNOVATIONS UK LTD

Contract period

Starts
20 Nov 2026, 00:00
Ends
21 May 2040, 00:59

Related lots

1

Documents

Entry 1
Id
096067-2026
Document Type
awardNotice
Notice Type
UK5
Description
Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Published
12 Oct 2026, 13:12
Format
text/html

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Due
11 Nov 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · London · UKI44 · SE1 0LL · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 096067-2026Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·

PROCURAAXIS AWARD ANALYSIS

Award outcome intelligence

Evidence-bound analysis of the published award appears below the official tender and award information.

ANALYSIS PREVIEW

Award intelligence at a glance

Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime has published a transparency notice for a proposed direct award to LEIDOS INNOVATIONS UK LTD to complete, operate temporarily and transition its integrated command-and-control system. The award is pending, with signature scheduled for 11 November 2026 and a stated contract period from 20 November 2026 to 20 May 2040.

Published outcome signals

  • Notice typeTransparency notice on Find a TenderEvidence: The published document is described as a “Transparency notice on Find a Tender”.
  • Award statusPendingEvidence: Award 1 has status “pending”.
  • Procurement statusCompleteEvidence: The tender record and lot 1 are marked “complete”; this does not override the award's pending status.
94% approved-analysis confidence1 supplier record analysed4 source limitations

SOURCE AND FRESHNESS

Traceable procurement data

Source
Find a Tender
Notice reference
096067-2026
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07859a
First published
12 Oct 2026
Last checked
12 Oct 2026, 14:47
Notice versions reviewed
1
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HOW THIS WAS PREPARED

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Analysis status
Approved for publication
Analysed
12 Oct 2026
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