Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: Northern Ireland Prison Service - ID 6564562 DoJ - Northern Ireland Prison Service - Prisoner Telephone System (GBP 6,480,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 15th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by Northern Ireland Prison Service. Procurement: ID 6564562 DoJ - Northern Ireland Prison Service - Prisoner Telephone System. Description: The Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) is an executive agency of the Department of Justice, Northern Ireland. The current prisoner population is 1,884 (as of 26/03/26) with Hydebank Wood College and Women’s Prison holding 55 males and 111 female prisoners, 1,246 prisoners at HMP Maghaberry Prison and 472 at HMP Magilligan Prison. This Requirement is to cover the supply of telephone equipment a Category: services. Value: GBP 6,480,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): ‘Withheld Section94 supplier’.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 15th October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 15th October 2026 · 11:34

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: NHS England - NHS Online (GBP 9,900,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

What the source reported

What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.