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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: BLC0218 Market Engagement Crypto Capabilities Framework-Prior Information Notice
2. Awarding Authority:
BlueLight Commercial
Colmore Circus Queensway
Birmingham
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United Kingdom
B4 6DG
Contact: Emma Barksby
Email: emma.barksby@bluelight.police.uk
Phone: 00000000000
URL:
3. Contract Type: Services
4. Description: BlueLight Commercial are working in collaboration with UK policing and government organisations and agencies to seek information from the digital asset software and services market to inform a procurement process. The procurement is to establish a two-lot framework. Lot 1: Storage and Realisation is for a software as a service custody solution to store seized digital assets and to realise these asset. Lot 2: Track and Trace is for software for blockchain forensic analysis. The purpose of this engagement is to obtain information about licensing, pricing models and insurance. The procurement process will commence in the first quarter of the 2025 financial year.

BlueLight Commercial is looking to assess the market with respect to:
1. Licensing models-flexible approach to user licenses.
2. Hierarchy of users-are the solutions compatible with use by law enforcement where different permissions may be granted, and cases can be reviewed by senior management.
3. Pricing model and insurance requirements.

It is important to note that this PIN/RFI is not a call for competition and as such potential providers will need to express interest in any future tender opportunity once a contract notice is published in Find a Tender Service (FTS) or the Central Digital Platform. This PIN is not a pre-qualification questionnaire and is not part of any pre-qualification or selection process and is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise only to help inform a subsequent procurement exercise.
5. CPV Codes:
48100000 – Industry specific software package
72212482 – Business intelligence software development services
48482000 – Business intelligence software package
66160000 – Trust and custody services
72212100 – Industry specific software development services
6. NUTS Codes: UKG31
7. Main Site or Location of Works, Main Place of Delivery or Main Place of Performance: Any region
8. Reference Attributed by the Awarding Authority:
IT-547-53-BLC0218
9. Estimated Value of Requirement: £20,000,000 to £60,000,000
10. Start Date: 21/12/2025
11. End Date: 21/12/2029
12. Closing Date: 20/02/2025
13. Other Information:
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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No
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