Security clearance (general)
Personnel clearance & vetting · awarded by UKSV · serves: Vetting & clearance specialists
- Notices demanding it
- 219
- a floor
- Said “must”
- 69
- explicit obligation
- Open right now
- 4
- Value gated
- £3.9bn
- 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.
- Vetting and Securitymandatory
Civil Nuclear Police Authority (CNPA) / Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC)
Mandatory Regulation requires National Security Vetting is completed in accordance with HMG vetting processes.
Defence Equipment and Support
The contractor must hold at least UK Security Clearance to gain access and complete work.
- Data Protection Officer as a Servicemandatory
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside
We also require security certification at both ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus levels, and staff security clearance must conform to BS7858:2019.
AMEY DEFENCE SERVICES LIMITED
Surveyors will be required to hold or obtain BPSS security clearance as a minimum.
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
All personnel undertaking onsite visits, services and works must without exception possess DV security clearance.
The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London
Individuals working on this project must have received their Non-Police Personal Vetting level 3 and Security Clearance.
The Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime
To complete the Request for Information suppliers and their staff shall be expected to complete the relevant Non-Disclosure Agreement and confirm a minimum SC/DV level of security clearance.
SCOTTISH HYDRO ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION PLC
Due to the nature of the work involved, it is anticipated that the supplier and any sub-contractor personnel will be UK based and where necessary their employees assigned to the programme or with access to SHET data may be required to hold appropriate security clearance for their role.
Ministry of Defence
Suppliers must have the necessary Personal Security Clearances (PSCs) and must have access to facilities with security clearance (Facility Security Clearance [FSC]).
- UKNNL Site Compliance Trainingmandatory
United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory
The supplier must have training facilities within a 10 mile radius of site and must have trainers with P4 security clearance to deliver onsite training.
FCDO Services
Please note Security Clearance is required for this tender.
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
The service must be delivered by appropriately security cleared personnel (likely SC/DV clearance depending on Data Labelling requirement).
See it live
4 open tenders demand Security clearance (general) right now.
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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.