Notice Information
Notice Title
Strategic Facial Matching API and associated Services
Notice Description
Strategic Facial Matching (SFM) Project delivering infrastructure, software services and data migration to create a new national facial matching service to be used for law enforcement purposes.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Home Office Biometrics (HOB) operates a Biometrics Services Gateway (BSG). Designed, built and managed in-house, with cloud hosting, the BSG provides a non-proprietary, adaptable and scalable internal interconnect between HOB systems, including but not limited to those which provide biometric storage and search. Through a series of externally exposed APIs, the BSG also provides connectivity to other systems and thereby to users of biometrics services in the Home Office (e.g. HM Passports, Migration & Borders), to operational partners and agencies outside of the Home Office (e.g. local police forces) and to foreign government partners for international biometric exchange (e.g. 27 Prum Member States). The Strategic Facial Matching (SFM) Project is delivering infrastructure, software services and data migration to create a new national facial matching service to be used for law enforcement purposes, commencing with a foundational Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for Retrospective Facial Recognition (RFR) in Spring 2024. Some of the subsequent developments will be enabled by means of either a new BSG API or adaptations to an existing BSG API. Since 2018 the mobile fingerprint check service known as HOB Strategic Mobile or Rapid Search has been made available as a BSG API. This service is currently consumed by 35 local police forces and Immigration Enforcement, each of which has either built or bought mobile platforms and apps which are integrated with the BSG API. Mobile biometric services could be extended into the modality of face, exploiting the ubiquitous imaging capability now omnipresent in smartphones, together with apps and infrastructure which is already integrated with the BSG. This use case of facial search is referred to by policing as Operator Initiated Facial Recognition (OIFR) and is currently amongst the prioritised requirements of policing to maximise the benefits of facial recognition technology. Following previous HOB market engagement activity on Strategic Facial Matching, it is our intention to deliver a short technical integration workshop. The workshop will provide an update on HOB's delivery of the interface and will provide a forum to walk through the updated interface documentation. This workshop will be aimed at policing suppliers and/or in-house IT departments that wish to understand this updated interface and will provide visibility of the interface changes and will enable the market to understand any necessary development and testing that may be required to support this interface in the future. The workshop will be held online on 17th July 2024 10:00 - 12:00. Invites will automatically be sent to previous market engagement participants, but we are opening the meeting to suppliers who may have missed the previous session. If you are interested in attending the session, please e-mail strategicfacialmatchingproject@homeoffice.gov.uk by no later than Friday 12 July 2024. Please note that suppliers will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to participate in the session.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0472dd
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019598-2024
- 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
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 27 Jun 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 26 Jun 2024Expired
- 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
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- HOME OFFICE
- Contact Name
- Pam Wilson
- Contact Email
- strategicfacialmatchingproject@homeoffice.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CROYDON
- Postcode
- CR0 2EU
- Post Town
- Croydon
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI6 Outer London - South
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI62 Croydon
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Croydon
- Electoral Ward
- Fairfield
- Westminster Constituency
- Croydon West
Further Information
Notice URLs
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