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A new contract notice for IT services has been issued by London’s Metropolitan Police Service to help it move from six ICT towers to a two-tower model.
Metropolitan Police Service, which is famously called Scotland Yard, plans to combine the first five existing ICT towers into one single tower.
The unified tower will have some additional services at a high level, which include service desk, service management, hosting services, network services, end-user services, cybersecurity services and Security Operations Centre (SOC), mobile voice and data, and managed print.
The new two-tower model will be made up of an infrastructure provider to cover embedded service management and integration services, and another tower which will deal with separate applications.
The changes are being implemented as part of the Pegasus Programme, which aims at supporting the agency’s direction and strategy to grab the opportunities of data, digital and technology to become a better police force.
Metropolitan Police Service said that it intends to procure a ‘run and maintain’ contract without any pre-planned transformation built into the contract but having the scope to use the two towers to bring in change based on excellent delivery.
The law enforcement agency estimates the contract range to be between £250m and £600m over five years. According to the Metropolitan Police Service, there will be options to extend the contract by two separate periods of one year for providing ‘Run and Maintain’ services.
The contract notice issued by the agency covers the procurement of a single contract to deliver the services.
The agency said that assets are owned predominantly by it and there will be a refresh cycle during the contract term.
Metropolitan Police Service stated: “The authority has a strong preference for appointing a different supplier to each of the infrastructure and applications towers, to ensure independence between the 2 roles as the Infrastructure supplier will be managing the applications supplier to some extent.” |
