Planning

CAID Hosting and Associated Services

HOME OFFICE

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Planning

06 May 2022 at 15:51

Summary of the contracting process

The Home Office is currently planning a procurement process for "CAID Hosting and Associated Services," aimed at supporting the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID), a critical tool for law enforcement in the UK. This procurement, identified under the industry category of IT services, will involve the bidding of various lots, including secure hosting, networking solutions, and protective monitoring services. Key dates include an anticipated release of the Selection Questionnaire around September 2022, an Invitation to Tender (ITT) expected in November 2022, and a projected contract commencement in April 2023. Meetings will be facilitated via Microsoft Teams in late May and early June 2022 for potential suppliers to engage with the Home Office and discuss the services required.

This procurement presents significant growth opportunities for firms specialising in IT services, particularly those experienced in secure hosting, data management, and cybersecurity. Businesses offering expertise in the development of resilient IT systems, database management, and encryption technologies would be ideally positioned to compete for this contract. Suppliers aiming to assist in public safety and child protection initiatives may find a valuable niche within this tender process, particularly with the potential for contracts spanning three years, plus two one-year extensions.

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Notice Title

CAID Hosting and Associated Services

Notice Description

We are seeking to procure hosting and associated services for the operation of the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). CAID is the UK national media and hash store that supports the identification of the victims depicted in indecent images and videos of children and offenders that possess, distribute, and produce such media. CAID originally went live in 2014 and continues to be expanded and improved through an ongoing transformation programme. The current contractual arrangement for CAID Hosting and associated services, is due to expire and in order to obtain value for money, CAID is looking at establishing contracts with relevant providers for the following services, and the intention is to divide the requirements into lots. The length of the contracts are anticipated to be three years with two possible single year extensions, i.e., 3+1+1 years. It is intended that: * Selection Questionnaire shall be issued approx. September 2022 * The Invitation to Tender (ITT) shall be issued approx. November 2022, * Contract Go-Live shall be approx. April 2023, and * The new service shall be in operations before September 2023. Procedure: The Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 Restricted Procedure (with NDA completion). If you can see the following text anywhere within this PIN, it is not correct: "The contract(s) will be awarded without publication of a further call for competition.:" This is correct: "The Authority will issue a "call for competition" notice in due course.

Lot Information

Secure Hosting and Associated Operations and Service Management

The secure hosting and associated operations and service management of the CAID environments. This includes: o Highly available and resilient Live, and live-like, environments that contain Indecent Images of Children (IIoC) and other data, which must be held according to applicable laws and which are sensitive personal data. o Development and Test environments that are functionally representative, but do not contain sensitive data. It is likely that optional additional capabilities will be desired that will be requested separately from the core, mandatory capabilities.

Networking and Associated Encryption Technology

The wide-area networking and associated encryption technology to communicate between CAID hosted environments, other partners in the overall solution, and suppliers. The wider secure connectivity used for Police Force communications with the system is not part of this procurement.

Protective Monitoring Services and Security Incident Management for the CAID Hosting Services

The protective monitoring services and Security Incident Management for the CAID hosting services

Sourcing of Hardware, Software and Third-Party Services necessary for the contract.

Sourcing of hardware, software and third-party services necessary for the contract. Note this is a provisional service that may be procured via a separate procurement or incorporated into the respective lots above.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-03351d
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/011904-2022
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Planning Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

35 - Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

44 - Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

48 - Software package and information systems

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

75 - Administration, defence and social security services


CPV Codes

35120000 - Surveillance and security systems and devices

44316400 - Hardware

48000000 - Software package and information systems

48210000 - Networking software package

48214000 - Network operating system software package

48216000 - Network connectivity terminal emulation software package

48517000 - IT software package

48611000 - Database software package

48800000 - Information systems and servers

48810000 - Information systems

48820000 - Servers

48821000 - Network servers

48822000 - Computer servers

48825000 - Web servers

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72212210 - Networking software development services

72510000 - Computer-related management services

72600000 - Computer support and consultancy services

72700000 - Computer network services

75241100 - Police services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
6 May 20223 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
4 Sep 2022Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Planned
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
HOME OFFICE
Contact Name
Not specified
Contact Email
caidcommercial@homeoffice.gov.uk
Contact Phone
+44 7786393180

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SW1P 4DF
Post Town
South West London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI3 Inner London - West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI35 Westminster and City of London
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Westminster
Electoral Ward
St James's
Westminster Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster

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