01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Category
- services
- CPV classification
- 72000000 — IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- Tender period
- Not supplied — Not supplied
Description
NAFN requires a new contractual arrangement for the continued provision of the CycComms Workflow System, developed and supported by GSA Ltd. CycComms is the national standard communications data acquisition platform, used to handle over 60% of all communications data requests in the UK. It is fully compliant with the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, supports Automated Acquisition (AA) standards, and integrates directly with Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (IPCO). The system provides secure, real-time acquisition and end-to-end audit functionality.
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02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
GSA Communications Data Acquisition Solution in AWS Cloud (CycComms)
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Award value
- Not supplied
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- 11 March 2026
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Tameside One, Ashton under Lyne, UKD35, OL60GS, United Kingdom
Geoff Smith Associated Ltd
Leicestershire, UKD, LE67 1UE, United Kingdom
Companies House 03342175 →STAR Procurement
Sale, United Kingdom
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04 Provenance
Source for this process
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