Essex police authority has awarded a £32m deal for crime management systems to Northgate Information Solutions.

The framework agreement contract will see Northgate supply, install and maintain an investigation management, intelligence and defendant management IT system for Essex and a number of other police authorities, according to a notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

The 10-year agreement will be open to all police authorities and other law enforcement agencies within the UK, although eight police authorities are expected to be among the early adopters: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, City of London police and Kent police