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title: "Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-078eb1"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Crown Prosecution Service"
published: "2026-10-23"
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# Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Buyer: Crown Prosecution Service  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-078eb1

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## Summary

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.

## Notice

* 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

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100355-2026 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 23 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 14 Oct 2026 |
| Contract period | 19 Oct 2026 - 18 Apr 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £415,500 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Crown Prosecution Service |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Postcode area | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1H 9EA |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MARLBOROUGH CONSULTING LLP |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 72221000 - Business analysis consultancy services

## Release History

- 23 Oct 2026 at 11:20 - AwardUpdate - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100355-2026
- 23 Oct 2026 at 11:17 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100348-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100355-2026
  23rd October 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/100348-2026
  23rd October 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.cps.gov.uk/
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h6vhtk-04eac3
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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