Notice Information
Notice Title
715663452 - Holmes 2 - UK5 - Transparency Notice
Notice Description
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.
Procurement Information
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
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05a9e7
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063020-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK5 - Transparency Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Direct
- Procurement Method Details
- Direct award
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72512000 - Document management services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £491,269 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 7 Oct 20254 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 7 Oct 20254 months ago
- Contract Period
- 28 Nov 2025 - 28 Nov 2028 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- sanjay.kottegoda100@mod.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G2 8EX
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM32 Glasgow City
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Glasgow City
- Electoral Ward
- Anderston/City/Yorkhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Glasgow North
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063020-2025
7th October 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender
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