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East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit (EMSCU)

Leicestershire & Northamptonshire Police Custody Services

Historical · ContractNo open deadline

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value: £17,289,201Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time): Fri 6 Mar 2020A deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Fri 6 Mar 2020, which is not an open deadline.
Published: 12 Jul 2020
Region: East Midlands

02/ The brief

What the notice says

Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.

Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner and Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner are seeking to outsource the Provision of Civilian Detention Officers (CDOs) in Custody within their force authority area(s) for a 3 year +1 +1 +1 contract. ** ITT PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD BY THE 6TH FEBRUARY 2020**.

The Contracting Authorities reserve the right to award contracts on the following basis:

1. Lot 1 Only - Leicestershire

2. Lot 2 Only - Northamptonshire

3. Lot 3 Only - Both Leicestershire and Northamptonshire

The overall management of the contract to provide custody support is viewed as a partnership between each authority and the successful bidder. The services provided will be effective, efficient and meet the needs of the stakeholders and users, with CDO cover in line with agreed staffing levels and the appropriate balance of male and female CDO's for each team.

The services provided will involve work but not limited to the following areas:

• Detainee reception

• Detainee risk assessments

• Searching of detainees

• Detainees rights

• Detainee welfare

• Taking of photographs/video capture and other samples

• Managing telephone calls

• Health & Safety

• Detainee observations

• Managing visitors

• Escorting of detainees

• Release of detainees

• Recording of information

• General administration

03/ Classification

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.

66000000 66100000 66160000 75000000 75200000 75230000 75231000 79000000 79600000
66160000 66162000 75231210 75231230 75240000 79620000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

12 Jul 2020
Contract notice
Contract notice published 12 July 2020.
Release 7b54174d-69c3-48b4-9921-9d54a43fa490
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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

Only one release is held, so there is no change history.

06/ Questions

About this notice

East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit (EMSCU) published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £17,289,201.

07/ Tender hubs

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08/ Related

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Reference: 7b54174d-69c3-48b4-9921-9d54a43fa490
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Stage: contract · Contract
Last verified: Sat 11 Apr 2026, 23:56 BST
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