SC (security check) clearance
Personnel clearance & vetting · awarded by UKSV · serves: Vetting & clearance specialists
- Notices demanding it
- 66
- a floor
- Said “must”
- 30
- explicit obligation
- Open right now
- 0
- Value gated
- £1.8bn
- 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.
- Modular Building Constructionmandatory
KBS Maritime Ltd
Bidders must have SC Clearance and Cyber Essentials Plus to proceed to Tender stage.
UK INDUSTRIAL FUSION SOLUTIONS LTD
Personnel must hold BPSS (service desk) and SC clearance (business/platform admin).
Ministry of Defence
The system must provide data encryption at rest and in transit, granular role-based access controls, auditability, and SC-cleared supplier staff.
Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency)
Mandatory requirements include SC clearance and adherence to Homes England confidentiality policies.
Environment Agency
Copies of SC clearance letters for all proposed personnel must be submitted when registering interest.
GOVERNMENT PROPERTY AGENCY
Due to the location and security level of the project all personnel working on the project must hold a minimum of SC clearance.
- Physical Security Operation Servicesmandatory
NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED
o These operators must be SC cleared in addition to passing NESO security and background checks
- Provision of passenger servicesmandatory
AWE PLC
In respect of requirements 1-5, all services must be accompanied by supplier provided employees (drivers and maintenance teams), of whom are eligible for SC clearance.
- GMP Fire Alarm- Windhoek, Namibiamandatory
FCDO Services
The contractor carrying out the works to the confidential areas of the building will need to be DV cleared as a minimum, any operatives carrying out works within the main High Commission building will need to be SC cleared as a minimum and Gent trained.
Ministry of Justice
All staff carrying out penetration testing and working on this contract must be National Security Vetting cleared to a minimum of CTC level, a small number of sites will require SC clearance.
- JES/00141 - UW Supportmandatory
Ministry of Defence (Defence Equipment & Support)
Tenderers will be required to hold SC clearance, and demonstrate processes in place to access, storage and manage documentation at SECRET classification to participate in any competition and in order to access to the PQQ and ITT documentation.
- Contract Award Noticemandatory
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
All staff must be SC cleared to work on the project.
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.