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Crossing the Border - BX/Helios

Home Office

Awarded
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Key details

Contracting authority
Home Office
central gov
Region
London
Delivery: British Oversea Territories
Contract value
£36,623,042ex VAT
Submissions closed
24 January 2025
Published
13 January 2026

Procurement

Contract period
23 December 2025 - 22 December 2029
4 years
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
CPV classifications
  • 72250000 System and support services
  • 72261000 Software support services

What happened

Home Office awarded this contract to BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Limited worth £36,623,042 on 1 Aug 2025. The contract runs until 22 Dec 2029.

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.

Awarded supplier

Supplier
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Limited
Award value
£36,623,042
Award date
1 August 2025

Contact

Address
2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF

Identifiers

Buyer reference
tender_439772/1543161
Notice ID
9113b114-88bd-4335-87d7-acaa8305ce97-878934
OCID
ocds-b5fd17-5d036adb-35f8-4b4b-9293-574266a0bf48

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