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title: "Google Gemini Expansion and Tool Theft"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-077f36"
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buyer: "COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED"
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# Google Gemini Expansion and Tool Theft

Buyer: COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-077f36

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## Summary

The College of Policing bought a time-limited pilot to develop and test artificial-intelligence approaches to detecting tool theft, with work expanding to include knife detection. The requirement combines two technically inseparable elements: developing and testing the detection approach, and providing the cloud-based technical infrastructure needed to run the pilot. The infrastructure must meet the College’s security, governance and data-residency requirements. The work covers software and information systems, including custom software development. Delivery is across England, spanning the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West and Wales. The buyer is the College of Policing, the professional body for policing in England and Wales.

The procurement is complete and the contract was awarded to Google Cloud EMEA Limited through a direct award without competition, below the applicable threshold. The contract was signed on 1 September 2026 and runs from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2027. Its value is £140,000 excluding VAT and £168,000 including VAT. The pilot is intended to establish whether the tool-theft detection approach is accurate, cost-effective and scalable enough to justify a production procurement. A formal go/no-go decision is due at or before month twelve. The contract combines the pilot and its supporting infrastructure as one technically inseparable requirement; the procurement was not divided into separate lots. No award scoring or evaluation criteria are stated in the available process details.

This award indicates demand from the College of Policing for applied AI development and the cloud infrastructure needed to test it in a policing context. A credible future competitor would need to combine software development and AI capabilities with a secure, governed environment that can meet data-residency requirements. The requirement is not simply for a cloud platform: suppliers would need to support development and testing of detection approaches for tool theft, with potential relevance to knife detection, and assess whether the approach can perform accurately and cost-effectively at scale. The selected supplier was a large cloud provider, suggesting that the combined infrastructure and delivery requirements were met through a supplier able to provide both cloud services and the technical support for the pilot.

## Notice

This programme of work, initially focussed on tool theft but expanding to include knife detection, has two components that are operationally distinct but technically inseparable. The first is a time-limited pilot to develop and test AI-enabled approaches to tool theft, with a formal go/no-go decision at or before month twelve on whether the approach is sufficiently accurate, cost-effective, and scalable to justify a production procurement. The second is the technical infrastructure required to conduct that pilot within the College's security, governance, and data residency requirements.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093108-2026 |
| Notice type | UK7 - Contract Details Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - without competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Sep 2026 - 31 Aug 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £140,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED |
| Locality | COVENTRY |
| Postcode area | Coventry |
| Postcode | CV8 3EN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG1 Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire |
| ITL 3 | TLG13 Warwickshire CC |
| Local authority | Rugby |
| Electoral ward | Dunsmore |
| Westminster constituency | Kenilworth and Southam |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Google Cloud EMEA Limited |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems
- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 48000000 - Software package and information systems
- 72212900 - Miscellaneous software development services and computer systems
- 72230000 - Custom software development services

## Release History

- 2 Oct 2026 at 09:09 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093108-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/093108-2026
  2nd October 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://cloud.google.com
- https://www.college.police.uk/
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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