Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

Tender description

The authority is seeking contractor/s for the supply and delivery of traceable liquids, property marking and associated goods and services. This requirement is split into three (3) lots: Lot 1: Traceable liquid property marking (residential and business kits) and associated goods and services; Lot 2: Forensic tagging spray and associated services; Lot 3: Cycle marking kits and associated goods and services. The MPS/Authority is seeking through this tendering process to award a framework agreement with suitably capable bidder(s) to provide these goods and services for an initial term of 36 months and a unilateral option of the MPS/authority to extend for further periods of 12 months up to a maximum of 48 months. The authority will award 1 contract per lot. This requirement is for property marking products and support services to allow the dual approach of both marking property and the fast time ability to identify marked property. The requirement includes a variety of marking kits making use of Forensic Traceable Liquid. The aim being that the police can issue kits in key hot spots across London to support the local community in marking their home and business possessions that can later be identifiable and tracked back to owners if stolen. This lot covers the following: Goods — property marking (residential) Kits – a kit to mark household items, — property marking (business) Kits — a kits to mark business items, — traceable liquid, grease, spray or similar products/devices for use in proactive operations, — demonstration cards (see Lot 1 SOR, paragraph 3.3), — mobile detection equipment/detection device (See Lot 1 SOR, paragraph 3.4). System — electronic registration process, — electronic database services. Services — training, — forensic analytical services including the collection of exhibits/evidential samples, — marketing, — repair or replacement of detection devices/mobile detection equipment, — support and maintenance for electronic registration and databases. The authority is seeking a contractor to provide forensic tagging spray and associated services. The requirement is for a hand-held spray canister that can be used to spray suspects with a Forensic Traceable Liquid. The objective of this is to be able to assist police with the identification of suspects. These suspects can be sprayed with a traceable liquid as they make-off from the police and when the suspects later come to the attention of the police, the spray marks can be found upon them, or their property. Marks can subsequently be forensically analysed to establish which spray canister they came from. Police records will then be used to identify the time, date and reported crime relating to use of the canister connecting the relevant information to support core frontline policing activities. Forensic spray tagging was only recently adopted by the MPS as a tactical option to help identify suspects involved in powered-2-wheeler (P2W (e.g. mopeds/scooters/motorcycles)) criminality. This was in response to a significant rise in P2W enabled crime, which is affecting all 32 London Boroughs. The MPS are always reviewing tactical options and responding to changes in crime types. The authority/MPS may, during the life of the contract, look to develop its strategy in the deployment of forensic tagging of suspects for other crime types. It is not yet known if or how the spray tagging will be advantageous in other tactical methods in the future. The lot covers: Goods — a hand-held canister that sprays a traceable liquid substance onto persons and property that can be identified under a UV light. Services — Forensic Analytical Services including the collection of exhibits/evidential samples. Bicycle, cycle and bike are terms all used within this document when referring to non-motorised vehicle consisting of 2 wheels in a frame 1 behind the other propelled by pedals and steered with handlebars attached to the front wheel. The authority are seeking a contractor to provide cycle marking kits and associated services. The requirement is for a cycle marking kit, a product that can be used by the police to mark multiple bicycle’s with a unique visible coding. The objectives for cycle marking are: For the authority: — to provide a property marking product the police can use to mark multiple bicycles with a unique visible code, — the police can quickly read and track the unique code found on a bicycle they recover or suspect to be stolen, using their internal crime reporting databases and the providers database to locate potential owners of the bicycle. For the community — provides a visible permanent code on their bicycles that people can easily read and make a record of and register this code if they choose too. The purpose being if a bike is stolen then a report containing the code can be made with the police and on the database in the hope, it might be recovered. The lot covers: Goods — cycle marking kit (see section 3.1 of the SOR for Lot 3), — demonstration cards (see section 3.2 of the SOR for Lot 3). Services — an electronic registration process for the bicycle owner to register their unique code, bike details and contact details, — police access to the registration database for identifying bicycle owner to help with police investigations into lost and stolen Bicycles, — training, — marketing.