Official UK procurement notice
POLICE CYBERALARM · The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London (Mar 2025)
Authority: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London (Local council)·On behalf of: META PROCUREMENT LTD
What is being bought
Published requirement description- Purpose of this Notice
This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) Notice is issued in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 to inform the market of an upcoming procurement and to invite early engagement via Teams meeting.
The authority is preparing to launch a procurement for a national cyber threat detection and reporting platform under a Competitive Flexible Procedure.
This service will replace and enhance the existing Police Cyber Alarm system.
This notice serves to:
- Signal the intent to launch a formal procurement in Q2 2025.
- Invite suppliers to participate in early engagement activities.
- Gather insights to help finalise the tender documents.
- Summary of Requirement
The future platform will:
- Collect and enrich inbound external network security device metadata from UK member organisations.
- Support threat detection, alerting and pattern recognition.
- Provide scalable and secure cloud-based processing, storage and querying capabilities.
- Offer dashboards, reporting tools, and scheduled vulnerability scanning.
- Integrate with law enforcement and threat intelligence services
- Supplier Engagement Activities
Engagement Period: 31 March 2025 - 21 April 2025
Supplier Engagement Day: Tuesday 1pm 15 April 2025 (Online)
Activities will include:
- Presentation of the draft high-level requirements and delivery timeline.
- Q&A session with the project team.
- Opportunities for suppliers to submit feedback and suggestions.
To register for the session, please email Jonathan.green2@cityoflondon.police.uk by 12 April 2025.
- Indicative Procurement Timeline
Milestone Target Date
PME Period 31 Mar - 21 Apr 2025
Supplier Engagement Day 15 Apr 2025
Selection Questionnaire (SQ) Published 30 Apr 2025
SQ Submission Deadline 23 May 2025
Shortlisting and Notifications Early June 2025
Invitation to Tender (ITT) Issued 6 June 2025
ITT Clarifications & Demos June-July 2025
Evaluation & Moderation July-Aug 2025
Contract Award September 2025
Go-Live November 2025
- Next Steps
Following the engagement period:
- Supplier feedback will be reviewed and may inform the final SQ and ITT documentation.
- A Selection Questionnaire will be published by end of April 2025, followed by an Invitation to Tender in June 2025.
- Important Notes
- This PME is not part of the formal selection process.
- Participation is voluntary and will not affect future procurement decisions.
- All materials and outputs from the engagement will be shared fairly with all prospective bidders.
- The authority encourages suppliers to share views to help shape the procurement in a way that is accessible, proportionate, and inclusive.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 31 Mar 2025, 16:25 BST
- Last source update
- 31 Mar 2025, 16:25 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-012088- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fadcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
31 Mar 2025 → 1 Sept 2025 · 3 dates- Planning notice published31 Mar 2025, 16:25 BST
- Market engagement15 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST
This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) Notice is issued in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 to inform the market of an upcoming procurement and to invite early engagement via Teams meeting.
The authority is preparing to launch a procurement for a national cyber threat detection and reporting platform under a Competitive Flexible Procedure.
This service will replace and enhance the existing Police Cyber Alarm system.
This notice serves to:
- Signal the intent to launch a formal procurement in Q2 2025.
- Invite suppliers to participate in early engagement activities.
- Gather insights to help finalise the tender documents.
Supplier Engagement Activities
Engagement Period: 31 March 2025 - 21 April 2025
Supplier Engagement Day: Tuesday 1pm 15 April 2025 (Online)
Activities will include:
- Presentation of the draft high-level requirements and delivery timeline.
- Q&A session with the project team.
- Opportunities for suppliers to submit feedback and suggestions.
To register for the session, please email Jonathan.green2@cityoflondon.police.uk by 12 April 2025.
- Contract starts1 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published31 Mar 2025, 16:25 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- META PROCUREMENT LTDProcuring entityProcurement Lead
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender