Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Home Office · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Value
- £36,623,042
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Sector
- IT services · System and support services (CPV 72250000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Aug 2025
- Published13 Jan 2026Published 165 days after the contract date
Description
This notice is for the award of the Crossing the Border (CtB) BX and Helios contract. Crossing the Border (CtB) is the steady state services and products which control the flow of people and services across the UK border. This is done principally via the Primary Control Points, mediated by a Border Force officer, or via an e-gate indirectly supervised by Border Force officer/s. Information from ports is processed by a central collection of systems, hosted in the cloud and on premise. These systems are built on top of a number of infrastructure platforms, leveraging a hybrid cloud model.
About the supplier
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Limited: every public contract they have won.