Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Police Digital Service · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £19,750
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Jun 2026
- Published13 Aug 2026Published 48 days after the contract date
Description
PDS requires an enterprise-grade platform for Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA), which is essential for maintaining secure and compliant software across a complex policing environment. By embedding the software into Azure DevOps pipelines, we can enforce consistent security and code quality gates at build time, ensuring vulnerabilities, code smells, and dependency risks are identified early and remediated before deployment. This aligns directly with NCSC secure development principles and supports defensible audit and compliance requirements. Additionally, the software's deep support for multiple languages and frameworks allows us to standardise scanning across diverse services
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).