• Date signed: 12/12/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1547

This paper seeks approval to go to market for a direct contract award of a maximum value of £900,000 to support the delivery of the CD&I Professional Services, a Baseline Audit of all on going CD&I initiatives across the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and to activate the Standards and Values work-stream.

• Date signed: 12/12/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1573

MPS Technical Equipment Rooms (TERs) were relocated to a Commercial Data Centre in 2015. The original agreement has now expired and a renewal of that agreement is sought. DMPC is being asked to approve the renewal of the agreement and associated funding of £5.716m over six years.

• Date signed: 12/12/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1579

This paper seeks approval for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to conduct a mini-competition procurement process for a Transformation Delivery Partner (TDP) at approximately £38m to provide support to the Transformation Directorate and Enabling Functions through a variety of Services, including Portfolio Services and assisting with the development of Outline Business Cases to deliver the commitments made in the New Met for London (NMfL). Actual spend will be committed only within available budget. 

• Date signed: 12/12/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1575

The Violence Reduction Unit’s parenting and families work focuses on developing stronger and more resourceful families (to better support young people). The Unit takes a ‘whole family approach’ to reducing violence. Programmes in this space focus on building strong parental and family relationships and supporting organisations and agencies to work together to engage families and support their needs.
The Violence Reduction Unit has invested in a Parent Carer Champion Network (approved in PCD 1442, 1295,1263 and CEOD 29/23) which has already supported over 7,000 parents and carers to increase their confidence in parenting and improve their family relationships. The Network is empowering and providing opportunities for parents and carers to shape their own lives, and an external evaluation (approved in CEOD 29/23) will commence in 2023/24 Q4 to establish the effectiveness of the Network’s approach to reaching its high level intended outcomes.
This decision seeks approval to extend the programme for a year across FY 2024/25 by £1,305,000, so the Network in 29 boroughs, being delivered through 27 grassroots voluntary sector organisations, can continue to run building a wider evidence base whilst a process and impact evaluation is undertaken by a commissioned evaluation partner.

• Date signed: 12/12/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1562

This decision seeks approval to accept additional funding from the Home Office for the Digital Public Contact (DPC) Programme in 2023-24 of:
£1,000,000 for the extension of the Single Online Home front-end to provide a portal capability with integration to Humberside Police’s crime management system.
£200,000 for continued development of the DPC Analysis & Insights reporting dashboard to include benefits and enhancements to the StreetSafe tool, to include reporting of public transport locations for richer dataset to inform community activities.

• Date signed: 12/12/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1559

This paper seeks approval to accept Home Office grant funding of £2,480,000 for 2023/24 to support the delivery of the NPCC Serious and Organised Crime portfolio objectives. There is no financial exposure to MOPAC.

• Date signed: 12/12/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1560

On 26th October 2023, the Home Office confirmed that MOPAC had been successful in applying for £990,324.28 in funding from Round 5 of its Safer Streets Fund, which is focusing on acquisitive crime, anti-social behaviour, and safer spaces for women and girls. The funding is covering two financial years (2023/24 and 2024/25) and will be split into two tranches accordingly. The first tranche for 2023/24 is £455,631.44 and the second tranche in 2024/25 will be £534,692.84.
MOPAC has received the first contract to sign from the Home Office covering the first FY 2023/24.
This decision is for MOPAC to accept both tranches of funding to re-grant to three London boroughs and their respective projects. The successful boroughs were put forward by MOPAC in its successful proposal to the Home Office earlier in 2023 following a shortlisting and review process involving colleagues from MOPAC, the GLA, and the Metropolitan Police.
The amounts to be granted to boroughs by MOPAC following receipt will be:
£502,992.00 to Lewisham (£272,664.00 in FY 2023/24 and £230,328 in FY 2024/25).
£239,832.28 to Haringey (£100,467.44 in FY 2023/24 and £139,364.84 in FY 2024/25).
£247,500.00 to Croydon (£82,500.00 in FY 2023/24 and £165,000.00 in FY 2024/25).

• Date signed: 09/11/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1554

This paper seeks approval for the extension of the current lease arrangement for the Emergency Response and Patrol Team (ERPT) at the Uplands Business Park in Waltham Forest until December 2027. The cost of the extension is provided for within existing budgets.

• Date signed: 30/11/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1556

This Paper seeks permission to approve the purchase of various radio equipment and services over 5 years from financial year 2024-2025 onwards.

• Date signed: 14/11/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1553

This paper seeks approval to invest upto £1,500,000 in enhancing the security of criminal exhibit stores. The cost will be funded from the existing approved capital programme.

• Date signed: 15/11/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1550

This paper seeks approval to a single tender action for the award of a contract to Hub Telecoms Consultancy Limited for the provision of advice in relation to telecoms masts on the MOPAC estate. The award is for an initial two year term with an optional 1 year extension at a value of upto £150,000 per annum.

• Date signed: 26/10/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1537

The VRU are continuously listening to our partners to understand potential gaps, additional asks and how we can better support local provision, partnership responses to violence and share our learning across London to further understand impact and ‘what works’. Feedback from our local authority partners has highlighted how we can quickly respond to some of these gaps and additional asks. Those being an increased offer of investment support post critical incident to support local immediate response. Additionally, support for resourcing more local evaluation and research into programmes and investment at borough level.
As part of PCD 1147 there is an approved decision for a critical incident draw down fund up to £750,000 each year for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, allocating up to £5,000 per critical incidents. The VRU are seeking to increase this individual offer up to £25,000 per critical incident where additional criteria met to better support and enable local response. The overall budget remains the same.
The VRU Research, Monitoring, Evaluation Learning (RMEL) team is currently developing our online evidence hub, designed to share learning and best practice in the violence reduction field. The VRU would like to further develop this function locally by supporting local authorities to fund evaluation and research of violence reduction and prevention interventions, offering grant funding of £5,000- £50,000 between 2023-2025 with an overall budget of up to £500,000.

• Date signed: 14/11/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1523

This paper seeks approval for a range of procurement actions over the period from 2024 to 2028 in relation to fleet services. There is no request for additional funding. The paper includes approval to re-procure a range of goods and services with various contract lengths, the re-procurements do not commit the MPS to spending the contract value, and the values include a significant element of headroom to provide for uncertainty in respect of both prices and volume. There is a maximum multi-year value of £258,020,000, - the maximum annual value would be c£50m. The paper also seeks approval for three current contract uplifts due to unexpected volume usage related to the late Queen’s funeral and the Kings coronation, and a single tender action in relation to the King’s coronation.

• Date signed: 26/10/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1518

MOPAC are seeking approval to award Opinion Research Services (ORS) the contract for the provision of research requirements for MOPAC, via the Research Services Contract. The contract will last for a period of three financial years with an option to extend for a further twelve months if required. The maximum contract value will be £5,461,310.43 across four years. This constitutes £4,032,819 for the initial three years (as per the quote provided by ORS as part of their bid), plus a projected £1,428,491.43 for the fourth (+1) year. Note the fourth year projected costs are the same as the third year quoted costs.
The winning bid is £1,061,310.43 above our originally-projected budget of £4.4m for the Research Services Contract (PCD 1237).
The research contract will facilitate the delivery of Police and Crime Plan objectives, by providing a robust evidence base for improving public perceptions and victim satisfaction (via the Public Attitude Survey and User Satisfaction Survey). Utilising an external company enables MOPAC to achieve a fully independent assessment of Londoners’ voice.

• Date signed: 26/10/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1516

The MOPAC/MPS budget was approved in March 2023, revisions to the MOPAC budget were subsequently approved in June reflecting the proposed use of carry forwards from the 2022/23 budget, changes in grant assumptions and a minor adjustment between the MOPAC and MPS budget. Net expenditure remains the same at £3,281.5m.
The MOPAC/MPS 2023/24 budget was approved in March 2023. Since the MOPAC/MPS budget was approved there have been a number of changes to the MOPAC budget following confirmation of grants, approved use of reserves and carry forward of budgets from 2022/23 which were agreed as part of the out-turn process in June. Net expenditure for the MOPAC/MPS budget remains unchanged.
As at the end of June 2023 MPS and MOPAC are forecasting an underspend of £12.1m for the end of the 2023/24 financial year of which £12.5m relates to MPS, offset by an overspend within MOPAC of £0.4m.
The Capital Programme remains unchanged since it was approved in March 2023 and is forecasting an underspend of £53.5m largely driven by delays in a property transaction along with variety of refurbishment works no longer expected to take place in the current financial year (£70.3m) and other minor underspends (£2.1m) offset by an overspend in Transformation (£18.9m).
The forecast position on reserves is also set out in the report and shows that earmarked reserves are forecast to reduce from £448.8m at the end of 2022/23 to £266.6m by the end of 2023/24. The reduction in reserves is £11.3m less than anticipated when the budget was set due a number of reasons including, reprofiling of projects into future financial years requiring funds to be carried forward from both 2022/23 into 2023/24 and also 2023/24 into 2024/25, and changes in planned usage of reserves.

• Date signed: 20/09/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1500

This paper seeks MOPAC approval for a call off contract via a Value Added Reseller to Magnet Forensics for the maintenance and support of the Metropolitan Police Service’s existing Forensic solution - Remote Search and Rescue – over a three year period.

• Date signed: 03/08/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1486

The ENGAGE programme provides vital support to children and young people (aged 10-17) within police custody. The ENGAGE programme locates local authority youth workers within police custody to support them at critical ‘reachable and teachable’ moments. ENGAGE youth workers work closely with the NHS Liaison and Diversion scheme to ensure that young people are offered well-rounded care to support their wellbeing, and ongoing signposting into positive opportunities within the community and statutory support services- where required.
In financial year 22/23, the ENGAGE programme expanded to a further 4 custody suites, with Harrow taking the ‘lead borough’ role on behalf of North West BCU.
Due to challenges with mobilisation, officers from across Harrow, Brent and Barnet agree that Barnet are in a better position to lead the programme on behalf of the North West BCU from July 2023 to March 2025 and can start delivering at pace.
This decision is seeking to end the grant agreement held with the London Borough of Harrow and enter a new grant agreement with the London Borough of Barnet. This decision has no additional cost.

• Date signed: 05/09/23
• Date published: 28/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1505

This paper seeks approval for a uplift in the contract value for the awards made for the supply of Mechanical & Electrical, General Building Works and Locksmiths services to two suppliers of £19,714,853 and £27,062,294 respectively, to enable the second of two contract extensions to be exercised. The cost will be funded from within existing resources.

• Date signed: 05/09/23
• Date published: 27/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1504

This paper seeks a further contract value uplift in respect of the contract for the supply of asbestos management services. The increase of £291,958 is within the Public Contract Regulations and will be funded from within existing budgets.

• Date signed: 22/09/23
• Date published: 27/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1502

This paper seeks approval for the procurement and subsequent award of a contract for the provision of Architecture and Business Analysis managed services. The procurement will be to re-compete the provision of the service so that the Met can take advantage of competitive, standardised pricing and strategically aligned outputs.