National Firearms Licencing Management System

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This PIN is being issued by the Home Office (the Authority) to notify the market of its intention to hold an Early Market Engagement Event to seek views and feedback from the market in relation to the Design, Build, Implementation, Project Management and On-going Support of a new core 'National Firearms Licencing Management System' (NFLMS) for Law Enforcement Services across England and Wales. Accordingly, the Authority will be holding a virtual Early Market Engagement Event via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 15th March 2022, between 11:30 and 12:30 noon. Expressions of interest from Suppliers who wish to attend this event must be sent by email to NASCommercial@homeoffice.gov.uk and must include the name and address of the organisation, full names of the designated attendees, position in the organisation, email and telephone contact details. Please note that attendance shall be strictly limited to two representatives per organisation. The deadline for registration of interest to attend shall be 12 noon on Monday 14th March 2022. The Home Office reserves the right to determine whether any registrations submitted after this time shall be accepted. Lot 1: This PIN is released for prior information only. This PIN does not formally signify the beginning of any procurement exercise by the Authority, nor does it constitute a commitment by the Authority to undertake a procurement. However, in the event that the Authority decides to formally commence a procurement pursuant to this PIN, a separate Contract Notice will be published. Background/Opportunity Overview The current National Firearms License Management System (NFLMS) is a computer system designed to record details of individuals who apply for firearms certificates, the certificates themselves, and the firearms and shotguns licensed to those people who hold certificates. NFLMS is used by forces teams across England and Wales and these teams conduct approximately 170,000 licence grants, renewals and variations per year. While NFLMS delivers capability to support its core function of acting as a record of certificate holders, the system has remained relatively unchanged over the 15 years it has been in service while new requirements for the system have emerged. In addition, the current NFLMS system has always been a challenge to change and adapt as requirements, technology, legislation and/or policy changes. A key requirement of the new system is that it is flexible, adaptive to change and future refinement.