Specialist Engineering Contractors

Tender description

The Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) aims to ensure that our customers stay at least one step ahead of the criminal. We provide technical, operational and policy support to all areas of the Home Office, UK police forces, the Security Services and other government departments. HOSDB is based at two sites in the UK; at Sandridge, Hertfordshire and Langhurst, West Sussex. Our development work is conducted both in-house and through our extensive links with industry and academia. HOSDB is probably unique; we know of no other organisation in the world that conducts such a wide range of work in ‘policing’ technology. To further benefit UK policing, we work closely with selected law enforcement organisations across the world to share the risks, costs and benefits of complex technologies. With 23 technical programmes and over 150 current projects serving almost every branch of policing and law enforcement, our work is diverse and exciting. HOSDB employs over 200 scientists and engineers from numerous technical disciplines. They combine the knowledge of real operational problems with the technical skills to solve them. HOSDB have a requirement to engage the services of several specialist engineering contractors to assist in delivering the strategy of the National Technical Support Unit based in Sandridge, St. Albans. The specialist engineering contractors required are: Mechanical Development Technician PCB Design Technician CAD Engineering Development Technician Electronic Development Technician