MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: 02/03/23
• Date published: 08/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1326

This paper seeks approval for the re-procurement of an auction facility to enable the disposal of non-estate property and other assets that the MPS comes into possession of and where a lawful owner cannot be found. The proposed term of the contract is upto four years. There will be no cost to the MPS as the buyers will pay a premium to cover the auction house costs.

• Date signed: 11/11/22
• Date published: 08/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1334

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of a claim for damages against the MPS.

There is an open and exempt report as some of the information relates to data protection, is commercially sensitive and is legal professional privileged.

• Date signed: 09/12/22
• Date published: 08/12/23
• Reference code: PCD 1330

This paper seeks the approval to re-procure the print management, distribution and storage contract which expires in December 2023 at a value of £2,000,000 p.a. and for a up to four year term, and to increase the contract value of the current contract by £2,000,000 due to additional demand on the service. The proposed re-procurement is expected to be via a compliant collaborative procurement with Transport for London. The cost of the additional contract uplift and the future re-procured contract will be funded from within existing MPS budgets.

• Date signed: 30/11/22
• Date published: 21/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1322

This paper seeks approval to accept Home Office grant funding of £340,000 for 2022/23 in respect of the National Policing Coordination Centre (NPoCC) Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) function. There is no financial exposure to MOPAC.

• Date signed: 31/10/22
• Date published: 21/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1323

The Commissioner has identified a number of initiatives as part of his one hundred day plan. The deployment of a smartphone to every officer and to front line policing staff is amongst the high priorities.
The rollout of smartphones will increase accessibility and mobility of MPS officers, in turn this is expected to improve victim care, support the MPS officers & staff, and rebuild trust and confidence in the police.
The proposal is to acquire and provide 29,737 smartphones to all officers and identified staff at a capital cost of £8.6m (£8.2m in 2022/23 and £0.4m in 2023/24), with revenue for on-going support of £0.8m in 2022/23 rising to £3m per year from 2023/24. There is an ongoing capital refresh requirement of £3m in 2024/25 and £9m in 2025/26. The costs will be funded in part from the 2022/23 underspend, a reallocation of existing budgets and by adding to the Capital Programme in future years.

• Date signed: 29/11/22
• Date published: 21/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1345

This paper seeks approval for further investment in the Lambeth HQ building car park ramps repair project. The cost of the additional investment is £509,371 which will be funded from within the MPS capital Forward Works budget. The procurement will be via a compliant direct award.

• Date signed: 02/11/22
• Date published: 21/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1314

MOPAC holds a 10 year lease for the Enfield Patrol base running from 30 January 2016 until 29 January 2026. The lease is subject to a rent review on the fifth year anniversary. This paper seeks approval for the revised rent agreed with the landlord. The cost of the revised rent is funded from within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) budget.

• Date signed: 30/11/22
• Date published: 21/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1321

Reducing and preventing violence and protecting people from being exploited or harmed are key priorities in London’s Police and Crime Plan 2022-25.
Tackling violence is a top priority for the Mayor so, to support this in 2022, MOPAC was allocated funding to further support the reduction of seriousness and frequency of offending and victimisation of children and young people involved or affected by violence and exploitation.
This decision requests a total of £1,000,000 funding from this allocation, across 2022/23 and 2023/24 to support the following programmes:
The Lambeth housing-related support service for young males at risk is an innovative project being run by the London Borough of Lambeth. They are commissioning specialist accommodation for young people who are at high risk due to their gang associations but wish to leave that way of life.
The London Gang Exit programme, led by Safer London, provides specialist one-to-one case work support and help for young Londoners affected by violence and group offending.

• Date signed: 25/10/22
• Date published: 21/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1296

In the Police and Crime Plan, the Mayor sets out his commitment to protect children and young
people from violence, harm and exploitation. This decision requests continuation and extension of
funding to the end of March 2025 to the following projects and services to ensure young Londoners
continue to have access to specialist support needed to help them cope and recover from crime or
trauma and/or reduce risk of victimisation and exploitation.
The following have been identified as vital for achieving the Mayor’s key aims of supporting young
people to exit the harm caused by gangs and serious violence; supporting young people to recover
child sexual abuse, child sexual and/or criminal exploitation:
• Hospital-based youth work - supporting young victims who attend hospitals with injuries from
violence
• Information Sharing to Tackle Violence and Safestats – collating violence data from hospitals to
improve understanding of where and when violence happens
• Funding to support local and regional safeguarding activity, including contributory funding to
the London Safeguarding Children Partnership
• The Lighthouse – which supports children and young people who have been sexually abused in
North Central London
• Child Sexual Abuse Hubs – which supports children and young people who have been sexually
abused in North West, North East, South East and South West London.
• Triage+ – supporting the identification of children and young people impacted by violence and
exploitation and subsequent navigation to appropriate support.
The total financial commitment will be £5,987,324 in 2023/24 and 2024/25.

• Date signed: 31/03/23
• Date published: 21/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1389

The Capital Strategy sets out the capital investments MOPAC anticipates making for the long term, whilst the Treasury Management strategy summarises that planned capital spending and sets out how MOPAC will manage its borrowings and investments over the short and medium term.
The GLA will continue to implement the MOPAC Treasury Management strategy via the Treasury Management Shared Service arrangement. MOPAC is currently a member of the GLA Group Investment Syndicate (GIS), and manages all MOPAC investments via the syndicate. These arrangements are in the process of being changed. From April 1st 2023 the London Treasury Liquidity Fund LP (LTLF) will manage all MOPAC investments to generate financial and risk reduction benefits. GIS assets are currently being transitioned from the GLA into the London Treasury Liquidity Fund LP (LTLF), MOPAC will join LTLF as a limited partner, replacing its GIS interest with an equivalent interest directly in LTLF. These new arrangements will provide additional regulated oversight and assurance.
The MOPAC Treasury Management Strategy will make use of both the London Treasury Liquidity Fund LP (LTLF) for investment purposes and has the capacity if required to make investments in its own name. This is designed to spread counter party risk.
The external debt and treasury management limits and indicators in Appendix 2 are consistent with the MOPAC medium term financial strategy and 2023-24 budget.

• Date signed: 30/11/22
• Date published: 14/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1300

MOPAC receives funding from the Ministry of Justice for victim and witness support services that MOPAC commissions in London. In July 2022 the Ministry of Justice issued two grant agreements confirming MOPAC’s multi-year funding allocation for 2022-25 (see PCD 1235).
In August 2022, the Ministry of Justice confirmed MOPAC will receive additional ‘Core’ grant funding for victim support services in 2022-23 and additional ‘general’ grant funding for the Male Rape Support Service Fund (MRSSF) in 2022-23, both of which require to be spent by the end of FY 2022/23. Two addendums to the grant agreements were subsequently issued to MOPAC in September 2022 for this additional funding. This decision seeks approval to accept the additional grant funding for 2022/23, sign the Ministry of Justice grant agreements, and manage the onward distribution of the funding to victim services.
The total additional Core grant funding confirmed for 2022-23 is £904,473.84, bringing the total Core funding for 2022/23 to £11,321,735.28. The total additional general grant funding for the MRSSF in 2022-23 is £1,672, bringing the total General grant funding for 2022/23 to £10,618,073.60.

• Date signed: 03/11/22
• Date published: 14/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1319

This decision concerns the approval of a 50% uplift in the value of a contract with Parkvets Ltd for the provision of veterinary services for MPS dogs. The original contract value was for £659,200, the additional 50% uplift value is £329,600, bringing the new contract value to £988,800. The extension to value will enable the Authority to extend the contract into its third year whilst a tender is run for a replacement contract.
As an immediate contingency Commercial Services has approved an extension (for value only) within their delegated authority of 10% of the original contract value. However, the proposed value for a one year extension exceeds this value and the time is required to run a tender for a replacement contract.
Approval is also required to run a tender for a replacement contract for veterinary services. The tender will be for a maximum value of £1,800,000 divided into two lots. One lot for Standard Veterinary Care & Animal Welfare Support will have a maximum value of £1,500,000 and the second lot for Complex Veterinary Care and Enhanced Support will have a maximum value of £300,000.

• Date signed: 02/11/22
• Date published: 14/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1317

This decision is for approval of a 10% uplift of up to £10m on the current MPS CDW Value Added Reseller (VAR) contract due to an unforeseen increase in spend.

The uplift in contract value will enable MPS/Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) to continue purchasing from the current VAR contract and allow the completion of a competitive procurement exercise for its replacement in by February 2023.

• Date signed: 08/12/22
• Date published: 10/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1315

This paper seeks approval for investment in and procurement actions to replace the perimeter fencing at the Vehicle Recovery and Examination Service (VRES) at Perivale. The estimated cost of the investment is £1,950,000 which will be funded from within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) capital Forward Works budget. The procurement of the fencing and its installation will be by way of existing MOPAC approved frameworks.

• Date signed: 11/11/22
• Date published: 10/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1308

The Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF) are an instrumental organisation for convening, lobbying and secretariat function in the Modern Slavery sector, both for London and nationally.
HTF have had their normal funding stream withdrawn for a year and have requested that MOPAC provide a one-off grant of bridge funding for 22/23.
The running costs for this year will be £47,200.
This funding will allow HTF to build on their already successful best practice work in London to ensure police and other statutory services and community groups are aware of their duties to identify and support victims of slavery.

• Date signed: 24/10/22
• Date published: 09/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1305

In order to relentlessly deliver for London, the MPS is embarking on work to renew policing by consent by delivering more trust, less crime, and high standards. To do this, the Met needs an improved approach to how it understands and uses data, making use of new technologies and techniques.
Project Peel underpins efforts to relentlessly deliver for the public. It will enable the Met to become a data-driven, insight-based, and intelligence-led organisation. It will allow the Met to make better decisions by bringing precision to its community crime fighting and, by better use of data and the introduction of cutting-edge analysis, it will allow the Met to better focus its activity.
This project is critical to delivery of the over-arching ambition. Its goal is to set up a new capability – a coalition, representing colleagues from across the Met and private sector – which can take, analyse, and provide insight drawn from a range of data. This rich picture will influence its operational activity. Supporting this, Peel will deliver a new framework for measuring performance (focusing on the objectives of more trust, less crime, higher standards) and will identify new types of data which can inform further development.

• Date signed: 28/09/22
• Date published: 07/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1290

This decision seeks approval for a further 12 month contract extension, in addition to the 12 months already approved in PCD 1136, to continue support until the current Vodafone Mobile Voice and Data Services contract is replaced.
The previous approval for a contract renewal was done in advance of negotiation with the supplier. Having completed the negotiation it would be most economical to change the parameters of the renewal to gain best value and reduce incumbent advantage in the market assessment to be undertaken.
This decision does not request additional funding or budget growth.

• Date signed: 16/09/22
• Date published: 07/11/23
• Reference code: OCD 1264

DMPC Decision PCD 1147 approved the allocation of £1,380,000 from Mayoral Core funding 2022-2023 and a further £1,380,000 funding 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 respectively for a set of programmes coordinated to deliver after school provision for children across London.
DMPC Decision PCD 1000 approved the allocation of up to £100,000 for evaluation of the Community-Led after school fund.
The VRU is seeking to expand on the evaluation of the after-school provision programme to correlate with the three-year extension fund.

• Date signed: 02/09/22
• Date published: 07/11/23
• Reference code: PCS 1256

Bounce Agency were originally contracted to develop a Serious Violence Toolkit in April 2019, which could be used by a range of stakeholders when responding in the aftermath of a serious incident of violence. Since then, Bounce Agency received additional funding which enabled the app to evolve into an on-line resource with app type functionality, that is used by community safety practitioners. The app is now recognised as the “Serious Incident Manager” and has been piloted at Waltham Forest borough.
The Serious Incident Manager has been welcomed by London Heads of Community Safety across London as a resource that could be used to keep the local community and key partners informed & the Metropolitan Police Service are considering the option of adopting the system, so that they and local partners can jointly respond to a critical incident through a single seamless system.
This report is seeking approval to direct award a contract to Bounce for 9 months in order for the VRU to run a procurement process for a 2 two- year Software as a Service (SaaS) contract which will include maintenance, hosting, training, support and further software development and updates of the current Serious Incident Manager. This will ensure that there is a continuation of service as Bounce has built the Serious Incident Manager, has unique knowledge of the subject matter acquired over 3 years, understands the community safety environment, and needs of professionals.

• Date signed: 28/09/22
• Date published: 07/11/23
• Reference code: PCD 1289

This decision concerns a Single Tender Action for the maintenance and servicing of the 40 Evidential Breath Machines (EBMs) that are currently situated across the MPS estate. The Business Justification requests continuing these arrangements through a new contract for a 2 year agreement with the opportunity to extend for a further year (a maximum of 3 years) at a contract value of £340k (£113k pa) with Intoximeters UK Ltd.
The MPS has a statutory requirement to enforce drink drive legislation and the EBM process provides the evidential information required to make a charging decision.
This contract is critical for ensuring that the breathalyser machines produce sufficient evidence for front line policing decisions, charging those suspected of being involved in a collision, those suspected of committing a moving traffic offence and those drivers suspected of having consumed alcohol or being under the influence of alcohol.
The existing maintenance contracts held by Intoximeter UK will expire in September 2022. This proposed contract will provide continuity for those services.