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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Crown Prosecution Service

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23 Oct 2026 at 11:20

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Summary of the contracting process

The Crown Prosecution Service bought business continuity and disaster recovery consultancy. The work covers preparing Gold and Silver response plans for a national outage, including training and testing, and developing and exercising response plans for headquarters and CPS areas. It also includes playbooks for five major disruption scenarios, including ransomware, a national case management system or power outage, and a pandemic. The supplier is to transfer knowledge to the CPS’s in-house Business Continuity Team. This is business analysis consultancy (CPV 72221000). The buyer is the Crown Prosecution Service. The procurement does not identify a delivery location.

The procurement is complete and the contract was awarded to Marlborough Consulting LLP on 14 October 2026. It was a selective award under a framework, with one lot. The award value is £415,500 excluding VAT (£498,600 including VAT). The contract runs from 19 October 2026 to 18 April 2027, with an option to renew for six months, up to 17 October 2027. The data does not state the evaluation criteria, so the basis for selecting the supplier cannot be described.

For suppliers competing for a similar future requirement from the Crown Prosecution Service, relevant strengths include business continuity and disaster recovery planning for national-scale disruption, and the ability to turn varied scenarios into practical response playbooks. Credible delivery also requires capability to prepare and test response plans, design and deliver training for headquarters and area teams, and transfer knowledge effectively to an in-house team. Experience addressing cyber incidents, critical system outages, power disruption and pandemics would align with the scenarios identified here. Suppliers should be able to deliver an integrated consultancy engagement spanning planning, exercises and organisational capability-building, rather than plans alone. The previous award was made through a framework, so framework access and experience delivering comparable work through that route are relevant commercial credentials.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Notice Description

* Gold/ Silver response plans and preparedness for a national outage, including training and testing. * Development, training and testing for HAO's and Area response plans for national outages * Develop playbooks and response plans against 5 key scenarios (e.g. Ransomware attack, national CMS outage, national power outage and pandemic). * Knowledge transfer to an in-house Business Continuity Team

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-078eb1
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100355-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
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Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Award under framework
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

CPV Codes

72221000 - Business analysis consultancy services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£415,500 £100K-£500K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
23 Oct 20264 days ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
14 Oct 20261 weeks ago
Contract Period
19 Oct 2026 - 18 Apr 2027 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Crown Prosecution Service
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SW1H 9EA
Postcode Area
South West London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI3 Inner London - West
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI35 Westminster and City of London
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Westminster
Electoral Ward
St James's
Westminster Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

MARLBOROUGH CONSULTING LLP

Further Information

Notice Documents

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