715663452 - Holmes 2 - UK5 - Transparency Notice

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