BPSS (baseline personnel security standard)
Personnel clearance & vetting · awarded by Cabinet Office · serves: Vetting & screening providers
- Notices demanding it
- 137
- a floor
- Said “must”
- 85
- explicit obligation
- Open right now
- 0
- Value gated
- £1.2bn
- a floor
Published values on the notices that demand it — a floor, not a total.
This gates people, not the company. The cost and the lead time are per head, and they recur as your team changes — which makes it a hiring or partnering decision as much as a compliance one.
The demand curve
Notices demanding it per 10,000 published, by year — rate-normalised so corpus growth never masquerades as demand. Complete years only.
The pale bars are 2025 onward. The Procurement Act went live on 24 February 2025 and changed how notices are written, so the step across that date is partly a change in convention and not only a change in demand. We have not measured how much of it is which, so please do not read this as a trend.
The receipts
Notices that demand it, and the sentence each demand was found in. Nothing is counted here without one.
Ministry of Defence
The Contractor shall be expected to adhere by the HMNB site security requirements, all Contractors and Sub-Contractors shall be BPSS security vetted and will be required to hold the relevant site security passes.
- Level 2 Helpdesk Supportmandatory
NS&I
The supplier must operate through NS&I’s ServiceNow platform, maintain BPSS cleared staff, deliver support during business hours, and comply with NS&I’s security, standards, and ISO requirements.
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
Personnel must hold BPSS and developers with system access must hold NPPV3/SC vetting.
UK INDUSTRIAL FUSION SOLUTIONS LTD
Personnel must hold BPSS (service desk) and SC clearance (business/platform admin).
AMEY DEFENCE SERVICES LIMITED
Surveyors will be required to hold or obtain BPSS security clearance as a minimum.
VIVO DEFENCE SERVICES LIMITED
You must be Construction Line Gold and willing to obtain BPSS clearance.
- Security Clearance Servicesmandatory
Anthro JV
BPSS screening as a minimum must include the following:
AWE PLC
In respect of the requirements, the works and services must be delivered with a minimum of BPSS cleared staff who are eligible for Security Clearance and a majority of SC cleared staff.
Ofgem
…idual project basis.It is a mandatory requirement for Ofgem that every specialist(s) onboarded via this engagement must be Baseline Personal Security Standard (BPSS) Certified and, in special cases (Ofgem to advise if applicable to the role and circumstances), Security Clearance (SC) approved.…
Ordnance Survey
OS are required to ensure all new hires are subject to BPSS pre-employment standards.
Ordnance Survey limited
OS are required to ensure all new hires are subject to BPSS pre-employment standards.
H M Revenue and Customs
Security clearance All must have BPSS as a minimum.
See it live
No open tenders demand it at this moment — the list updates continuously.
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Get set up free →Method: Every count here is a floor. We match the text of the notice, and a notice description is a summary — most tender packs demand things it never mentions.“Said must” counts only explicit obligation language in the matched sentence itself; anything ambiguous is counted as a mention, never as mandatory. Trend compares rates per 10,000 notices per complete calendar year.