Notice Information
Notice Title
Security Operations Centre (SOC)
Notice Description
The National Physical Laboratory [NPL] requirement is to implement a 24x7 Security Operations Centre (SOC). It would enable NPL to gain 24x7 visibility over potential security threats in its environment and respond to them in a timely manner as per severity and agreed SLA. Currently, NPL does not have out of hours capability to respond to security alerts/incidents which leaves it vulnerable to security threats coming in out of hours, which in turn can have a significant impact on the availability of NPL systems if we are hit by a determined cyber threat actor, especially at this time where UK government organisations are at a higher alert status. NPL's intention is to find a service provider that could supply several services which would fill the gap left from having a lack of resources (Senior Engineers and Architect), and who could function as part of an extended virtual team. Services required for SOC will be focused on NPL's M365 E5 licensing stack, including handling Defender EDR capabilities, SIEM service, threat hunting, compliance reporting, cloud security baselining, vulnerability assessments, phishing trends, dark web monitoring and technical security advisory. The contract will initially be for a period of three years with the possibility of extending it by two further periods of one year each (3 + 1+ 1), following satisfactory performance of the supplier and at the sole discretion of NPL.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Security Operations Centre (SOC)
Renewal: The contract will initially be for a period of three years with the possibility of extending it by two further periods of one year each (3 + 1+ 1), following satisfactory performance of the supplier and at the sole discretion of NPL.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-044f63
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010818-2024
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £375,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £375,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Apr 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 3 May 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY
- Contact Name
- Nina Heath
- Contact Email
- nina.heath@npl.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- TEDDINGTON
- Postcode
- TW11 0LW
- Post Town
- Twickenham
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI7 Outer London - West and North West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI75 Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Electoral Ward
- Teddington
- Westminster Constituency
- Twickenham
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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