NAS PaaS Procurement

Service Overview The National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Service (NAS) Programme was developed by the Home Office to transform the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) capability available to UK Police Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) on a national scale.

The system the Programme provides is connected to all Police Forces in England, Wales and Scotland as well as 16 approved LEAs, allowing ANPR data from across Great Britain to be fed into a single system for the first time.

The NAS System consists of three core components: Management Servers, which provide interface and connectivity with camera estates; a software application for alarming, dispatch and analysis for use in Police Operations; and managed Hosting Environments for the collation and storage of the ANPR data.

The Home Office is currently receiving the following capability and is seeking a Supplier to deliver a solution that would provide equivalent capability and functionality following the expiry of the current Contract with the incumbent Supplier: Production service - full scale production environment with storage for 60 billion number plate reads and 96 billion images, available 24/7.

This equates to approximately a petabyte of data.

Quality Assurance service - scaled performant test environment with storage for 120 days of data/images accessible from the PSN with access to the PNC test interface.

Management Server Development Service - small internet facing environment, accessible by Management Server Suppliers to validate releases of Management Server software against NAS System.

Support capability - small bug fix environment, accessible by the software application provider's engineers in UK (and US via VPN).

Reference service - production-like environment with storage for 7 days of data/images, used solely for validation of the operating system and security patches.

Virtual Learning Environment - production-like front end environment with storage for 90 days of data/images, accessible over the internet.

Admin Learning Environment - small, easily reset training environment for running multiple admin training courses, available over the internet.

Disaster Recovery solution - High Availability servers in the production environment that can be 'virtually transferred' to an alternate data centre in the event of a Disaster at the primary site.

Service Support - provision of a managed service for all environments, capability and functionality required to support the agreed SLAs for a national, critical system.

The contract shall have an initial term of 3 years with an optional 12 month extension period.

The Home Office anticipates that the approximate value of the contract over this 3 year term shall be between £18,000,000 and £20,000,000.