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Department for Work and Pensions

Security Control Centre

Security & DefenceCPV 35000000
Value£24.4m
Awarded16 May 2024
Published20 Dec 2024
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£24.4mtotal contract value
median £210k
this tender£0£26.4m

This is a large award for Security, Defence & Safety Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 4,182 valued Security, Defence & Safety Equipment tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the UK's largest public service department and is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy.

The Department is responsible for administering the State Pension and a range of working age, disability, and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants.

The DWP operates on a scale that is almost unrivalled anywhere in Europe, and most people in Great Britain will encounter the DWP at some point in their lives.

The DWP delivers its services through a leasehold Estate, operating over 800 properties nationally.

This includes job centres, assessment centres, corporate centres, and service centres.

The DWP Estate is geographically dispersed and has a large footprint on UK high streets as it requires a local presence.

About the SCC: The Security Control Centre (SCC) is a combination of an Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC), Remote Video Receiving Centre (RVRC) and other centralised security functions.

The SCC will provide a central facility for receiving alarm notifications, monitoring Video Surveillance System (VSS) images, utilising radio and other communication technologies, and controlling the response to emergency incidents.

The SCC will provide the services 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

The SCC will provide critical centralisation of all the Authority's security system monitoring, responses, data, and reporting.

The appointed SCC Supplier will work closely with Authority, the Total Facilities Management Supplier, Security Guarding Supplier and other members of the Authority's Estates department supply chain to ensure the safety and security of the Authority's employees, customers, and property.

This contract was awarded as part of a Further Competition under Lot 3 of the Crown Commercial Services Framework RM6257 Security - Physical, Technical and Support Services.

This contract is for an initial period of 5 years, following a mobilisation period.

With the optional extensions of 1 year + 1 year + up to 3 years.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the UK's largest public service department and is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy.

02

The Department is responsible for administering

The Department is responsible for administering the State Pension and a range of working age, disability, and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants.

03

The SCC will provide a central facility

The SCC will provide a central facility for receiving alarm notifications, monitoring Video Surveillance System (VSS) images, utilising radio and other communication technologies, and controlling the response to emergency incidents.

04

The SCC will provide the services 24

The SCC will provide the services 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

05

The SCC will provide critical centralisation

The SCC will provide critical centralisation of all the Authority's security system monitoring, responses, data, and reporting.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
This contract was awarded as part of a Further Competition under Lot 3 of the Crown Commercial Services Framework RM6257 Security - Physical, Technical and Support Services.

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