MOPAC decisions

• Date signed: Monday 11 July 2022
• Date published: Tuesday 19 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1245

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime (DMPC) is asked to approve the settlement of three civil claims 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: Tuesday 19 July 2022
• Date published: Tuesday 19 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1239

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: Thursday 16 June 2022
• Date published: Tuesday 19 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1223

This decision seeks approval to tender for two insurance policies and award the contracts.
Authority is required for insurance premium expenditure greater than the authority delegated by the MOPAC Scheme of Delegation; so requiring approval from the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime.
Within an Insurance Programme, MOPAC-MPS purchases two insurances policies that were the subject of a competitive tender 4 years ago and an award made under a long term agreement, subject to a limit of expenditure which has now been reached.

• Date signed: Wednesday 13 July 2022
• Date published: Tuesday 19 September 2023

This decision requests approval for the award of a framework agreement for the supply of Operational 5.56 ammunition. The request for award follows a competitive tender exercise in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has robustly tested as part of a tender process a wholly suitable ammunition to meet the armed policing challenges we face now and in the future.

The contract has an Estimated total value of £820,000 for the MPS and up to £3,270,000 nationally.

• Date signed: Thursday 3 November 2022
• Date published: Tuesday 19 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1297

As part of the current Mayor’s VAWG communications campaign, Have A Word, the Mayor has committed to providing access to an online toolkit promoting healthy relationships in schools. Following the successful Whole Schools Approach pilot in 4 Croydon schools, MOPAC has asked Tender Education and Arts to develop a VAWG Prevention online toolkit for secondary school teachers, to be published on the Have a Word webpage. To support the effective roll out of the VAWG Prevention Toolkit for teachers, MOPAC proposes to award grant funding to Tender Education and Arts.
The maximum value of the grant is £920,089 and it would run from October 2022 to March 2025. The payment of funding for Year 2 (July 2023 – March 2024) and Year 3 (April 2024 – March 2025) will be subject to a satisfactory evaluation to be completed by July 2023, which is the end of the academic year.

• Date signed: Wednesday 30 November 2022
• Date published: Tuesday 19 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1267

This Decision seeks approval to extend MOPAC’s grant funding of the Adult Women’s Diversion Pilot for continued service delivery for a 8-week period covering 1st October 2022 to the 30th November 2022. This would enable the programme to continue to deliver until the new Co-Commissioned Pan-London Service commences (PCD 1156). This would ensure the Diversion Pilot’s total integration into the new service, preventing a break in the gender-specific, trauma-informed, needs-based and tailored services on diversion.

• Date signed: Thursday 3 November 2022
• Date published: Tuesday 19 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1295

The London Violence Reduction Unit is allocating Mayoral approved funding to enhance activity in boroughs, with families and in custody. This funding will be going to 4 separate programmes for commencement in April 2023. This will include enhancing the borough capacity building, which is hyper local activity to reduce violence, uplifting the allocated amount to parenting activity across London, rolling out the youth custody ‘reachable moments’ service across London & extending the delivery of the Divert App.
This will total £2,888,000 over a period of 1 year. The projects and programmes which are discussed in this Decision relate to PCDs 1149, 1147 & 1263.

• Date signed: Thursday 21 April 2022
• Date published: Friday 15 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1184

The Home Office have approved a UK shipment to Ukraine of police equipment that is no longer suitable for operational use. This is being co-ordinated by the National Police Co-ordination Centre (NPoCC) and every police force in the UK, including the MPS, has signed up to provide unused equipment.

As the MPS equipment is owned by MOPAC this decision is to obtain MOPAC approval for the MPS to donate as part of the wider UK policing response.

• Date signed: Tuesday 28 February 2023
• Date published: Monday 4 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1369

This paper seeks approval to award a contract for the supply of stationery, small electrical goods and franking services. The proposal is for the award of a call-off contract for a term of 4 years from a Crown Commercial Services framework. The annual value of the call off contract is estimated at £1,750,000 which over a 4 year term is £7,000,000. The cost will be met from within existing MPS budgets.

• Date signed: Friday 17 March 2023
• Date published: Monday 4 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1400

This decision seeks approval to accept additional funding from the Home Office in 2022-23 as follows:
£522,500 for the Digital Public Contact (DPC) Programme in Financial Year 2022-23 for initial investment in the scoping of a Single Online Home Citizen Portal and
£460,000 for deliverables brought forward from next financial year to accelerate critical aspects of the DPC Delivery Roadmap.

• Date signed: Monday 23 January 2023
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1324

This paper seeks the approval of contract award for the provision of a cleaning service for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) buildings. The proposed contract term will be for an initial three-year term with two 2-year optional extensions. The initial term annual fixed price is £15,041,444 and the total up to seven year contract value (including estimated inflation) is £111,389,545. The cost will be funded from within the MPS existing budget.

• Date signed: Tuesday 20 December 2022
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1325

This paper seeks the approval for the re-procurement via restricted tender procedure of contracts to provide for the maintenance and inspections of lifts and roller shutter doors. The proposal is for a up to seven year contract term, an initial three term with two 2-year optional extensions. The estimated 7 year contract value is £13,934,142. The cost will be funded from within the existing MPS budget.

• Date signed: Thursday 20 April 2023
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1407

Since April 2022, the current iteration of the Your Choice programme has been delivering high intensity CBT therapeutic interventions to young people aged 11-17 who have been assessed to be at risk of/vulnerable to violence and exploitation. Funded by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), the programme is being evaluated as a randomised control trial (RCT), a gold standard evaluation that will enable the VRU to strengthen our evidence base on trauma-informed, therapeutic interventions, achieving positive outcomes for children and young people (CYP). The pilot phase of the RCT has now concluded, however, due to delays in delivery and consequently, evaluation timelines, the subsequent efficacy phase has not yet commenced. This means the programme is effectively suspended, with trained clinical teams unable to continue delivering services to CYP due to uncertainty of progression to efficacy and further funding. This transition phase will continue until programme evaluators have submitted their report to YEF and a decision on progression to efficacy has been made.
This current situation poses risks to the programme due to (a) trained practitioners standing down; (b) loss of clinical leads who brings CBT expertise to the programme; and (c) suspension of therapeutic service delivery to CYP. Cumulatively, these risks will also impact the ongoing RCT. To mitigate the risks, the VRU have proposed to match-fund £1,000,000 to provide essential, bridging support during this transition phase and to ensure that CYP are not left without critical support.
This proposal is to allocate £1,000,000 to allow the continuity of service provision across all local authority Your Choice teams (treatment and control groups) through a direct grant opportunity, allowing practitioners to continue their training and young people to continue accessing therapeutic service provision during the transition phase between pilot and efficacy.

• Date signed: Thursday 20 April 2023
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023

DMPC Decision PCD 1247 approved funding for projects in support of the Police and Crime Plan totalling £3.415m, this included £300k to deliver “MPS Officer Training – Trauma Informed and Rape Myth”. This decision seeks to approve to procure a 6-month contract to deliver Stalking Awareness Training at a maximum cost of £150k. This training will be primarily for the MPS, but with the intention that is could be accessible to CPS and the Probation Service, to support a more effective partnership approach to stalking. The training will improve awareness, identification and responses to stalking cases. This training is supportive in terms of delivery the Mayor’s VAWG strategy.

• Date signed: Friday 24 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1416

This paper seeks approval to accept further Home Office grant funding of up to £3,700,000 to support Operation Yamata to combat intra-London drugs supply networks. An initial grant of £4,300,000 was previously approved for this operation. The additional grant will enable the funding of an additional seven operational teams for the period October 2022 to March 2023.

• Date signed: Friday 31 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1417

This paper relates to the provision of a boarding up and locksmith service to secure property where forced entry has been made and where the home owner or occupier is not on scene. It seeks approval for a contract value uplift of £446,000 to take account of increased prices and demand for the remaining 12 months of the current contract, and to initiate procurement for a national framework for the re-provision of the service with effect from 1 March 2024. The estimated national framework value is between £6,400,000-£9,000,000 over a upto 4 year term, with the MPS estimated 4 year contract call-off value estimated at £2,200,000.

• Date signed: Tuesday 28 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1418

This paper seeks the approval of Home Office grant funding in 2022/23 of up to £2,096,674 to part fund the Organised Crime Unit (OCU) capabilities in respect of activities in the confiscation of assets determined to be proceeds of crime, threat assessment, drugs strategy, digital forensic support and transformation.

• Date signed: Friday 31 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 1 September 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1419

This paper seeks approval for the provision of a service for the installation and monitoring of temporary alarms for vulnerable people and witnesses. The service will be delivered by the award of a call-off contract from the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) national framework for this function. The proposed contract term is for upto 4 years and has a contract value of upto £4,800,000. The cost will be contained within the existing MPS budget.

• Date signed: Wednesday 15 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1411

Forensic accountancy services are required to support a criminal investigation being undertaken by MPS Specialist Crime investigators.
This decision seeks approval for a single tender action (STA) award to Quantuma Ltd for a contract worth c£150k.

• Date signed: Wednesday 15 March 2023
• Date published: Friday 11 August 2023
• Reference code: PCD 1381

This paper seeks approval for the award of a contract for the supply of equine veterinary services for an initial term of three years with two optional 12-month extensions, at an estimated 5 year value of £997,504. The cost will be met from within the MPS existing budget.