Use of intelligence products 1270/2025
FOI Reference: 1270/2025
Request:
Please treat this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I would like to request information about the business-intelligence, company-information and credit-reference products used by your organisation, as follows,
1. Products used since 1 January 2022
Please confirm whether your organisation currently uses, or has used at any point since 1 January 2022, any of the following products:
Endole
Beauhurst
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
Creditsafe
Experian Business
Equifax Business
TransUnion (UK Commercial Data & Credit Risk)
Company Check (Creditsafe group)
DueDil / FullCircl
Artesian
GlobalDatabase
Bureau van Dijk – Orbis / Fame (Moody’s)
Plimsoll Analysis
Kompass
Crunchbase
PitchBook
S&P Capital IQ / Market Intelligence
Graydon UK
Red Flag Alert
The Data City
For each product used, please provide:
- Product name
- Whether it is currently in use (Yes/No)
- Main purpose(s) for which it is used
2. Contract information
For each product identified above, please provide the following where held:
- Supplier / vendor name
- Contract reference number
- Contract start date
- Contract end date
- Next renewal or break date
- Contract value (annual or total)
- Procurement route used (e.g., CCS framework name and lot, tender, direct award)
If any commercial information is withheld under Section 43, please still provide the non-exempt data, including start date, end date, supplier name, and procurement route.
3. Internal ownership
For each product currently in use, please provide:
- Job title (not the name) of the person responsible for the product
- The department or team that manages it
4. Past products no longer used
Where a product listed above was used after 1 January 2022 but is no longer in use, please provide:
- Product name
- Contract start date
- Contract end date
- Contract value (annual or total)
Response:
I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:
1a) Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
1b) Yes
1c) D&B Finance Analytic, supplier checks in relation to third party contracts
2a) Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)
2b) N/A
2c) 01/04/2025
2d) 31/03/2026
2e) 31/03/2026
2f) £0; provided by Welsh Government
2g) Provided by Welsh Government
3a) Head of Procurement
3b) Procurement
4a – d) Not applicable
1a) Experian Tracing Solutions for Police and Law Enforcement with Investigator Online and Experian Credit Management Solutions with Evaluate from Experian
1b) Yes
1c) Used in investigations and Vetting processes
2a) Experian Business
2b) BSR-0630841
2c) 01/02/2025
2d) 31/01/2027
2e) 31/01/2027
2f) £13,500 per Contract Year
2g) G Cloud 14
3a) Financial Investigator; Vetting manager
3b) Economic Crime Team; Vetting
4a – d) Not applicable
1a) Equifax Business Public Sector Gateway Consumer services
1b) Yes
1c) Used in investigations
2a) Equifax Business
2b) N/A
2c) 01/04/2025
2d) 31/03/2028
2e) 31/03/2028
2f) £2,157.50
2g) Direct award
3a) Financial Investigator
3b) Economic Crime Team
4a – d) Not applicable
In addition to the above, there is no information held by Dyfed Powys police for questions 1 – 4 of your request for the following business-intelligence, company-information and credit-reference products as they are not used.
- Endole
- Beauhurst
- Creditsafe
- TransUnion (UK Commercial Data & Credit Risk)
- Company Check (Creditsafe group)
- DueDil / FullCircl
- Artesian
- GlobalDatabase
- Bureau van Dijk - Orbis / Fame (Moody's)
- Plimsoll Analysis
- Kompass
- Crunchbase
- PitchBook
- S&P Capital IQ / Market Intelligence
- Graydon UK
- Red Flag Alert
- The Data City
(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 02/02/2026)
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