X-ray inspection equipment

Tender description

Border Force secures the border and promotes national prosperity by facilitating the legitimate movement of individuals and goods, whilst preventing those that would cause harm from entering the UK. Border Force Officers do this by inspecting goods in range of environments that include but not limited to: freight consignments (ship and aircraft searches), roll-on, roll-off trailers, high vehicles and cars. In order to support Border Force in the examination process efficiently and effectively as possible there is a requirement for handheld technology that must be able to facilitate in the detection of drugs, weapons and customs interest, which includes currency and tobacco. In order to aid Border Force in finding concealed goods the technology must be: — Able to penetrate barriers which includes at least 3 mm of steel equivalent material and image the scanned area; — robust, transportable safely by car/van and light enough to be held by individual personnel and utilised in busy and varied environments; — compliant, if applicable, to the Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017 (IRR17) — any technology and vendors providing technologies using ionising radiation, must be compliant; — maintained by the supplier for the number of years specified by Border Force.