Police to spend £40m on fingerprint biometrics
Kablenet.com
Published: 22 Aug 2008 11:29 BST
The National Policing Improvement Agency is planning to spend up to £40m on mobile fingerprinting devices.
Home secretary Jacqui Smith announced £25m of further spending in this area in policing plans released in July. However, the tender published in the Official Journal of the European Union on Wednesday estimates the contract value at between £30m and £40m.
The four-year Midas (Mobile Identification at Scene) framework contract will involve up to 10 participants and may be extended for a further two years, allowing it to end at the same time as the Ident1 contract for the national, automated fingerprint system. The contract will apply to police forces throughout the UK.
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"The agencies have a requirement for the provision of capabilities for the mobile biometric identification of persons, in real- or near real-time, at scene through biometric and associated information held by or accessed by the agencies," states the notice, adding that bidders should include, but may not be limited to, fingerprint-identification capability.
The agency said it plans to enter into a master framework agreement or agreements, then deliver packages of work through mini-competitions. However, the agency reserves the right to go outside the agreement to procure some elements of the scheme.
A condition of the contract is that information-management services to provide biometric search, storage and response capabilities must reside entirely within the UK.
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