The Serious Organised Crime
Agency (Soca) is to spend between £300m and £500m on
anintegrated IT system to replace the legacy systems it inherited
when it was formed almost three years ago.
The so-called 2010 project was revealed in
tender documents published in the Official Journal of the
European Union. Soca plans to place business on 20 January
2009.
Its aim is "to transform service provision within Soca, both in
terms of supporting information management processes with
technology, and supplementing Soca's people and skills."
Soca's main interests are to defeat terrorism and serious
organised criminals such as people and drug smugglers, money
launderers and the like.
It also plays a role in the investigation of cybercrimes and the
part IT plays in serious organised criminal activity. For example,
it helped in the
Dark Market investigation, an FBI sting operation into the
global market for malware.