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002621 - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for 24/7 Managed Security Operations and a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £4,200,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 12 Aug 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
In October 2025, Durham County Council issued a UK2 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (2025/S 000-063329) and written PME questionnaire on the Open Portal (OPEN20251753) for Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Solution for Endpoint and Email Protection with 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) Services. This engagement attracted 24 responses from the market, however the scope of our requirements has now changed, and we are re-engaging with the market regarding our refined requirements. Please note, Extended Detection and Response is no longer within the scope of this procurement process.
Our annual budget is approximately £600,000 per annum and will be looking to procure a contract with an initial term of 3 years, with 2 x 24 month optional extensions. As part of this market engagement process, we are particularly interested in providers proposing what they feel is realistic without our stated budget and in line with our requirements and digital estate priorities.
Following satisfactory completion of the below questionnaire, we will be inviting interested suppliers to participate in 1 hour Teams discussions in September 2026, to discuss your specific offering in line with our requirements. These technical discussions will still be part of Preliminary Market Engagement to help us refine our specification and tender documents further, prior to issuing competitive tender process documents.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 72212730
- 48732000
- 72212732
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 8 Oct 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 8 October 2025.
Release 063329-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 29 Jul 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 29 July 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 071810-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 12 Aug 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 12 August 2026. Stated change: Deadline for PME submissions via Open Portal extended from Friday 14th August to Tuesday 18th August at 4pm.
Release 076543-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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08/ Related
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05aaa6
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · planning
- Last verified
- Wed 19 Aug 2026, 08:10 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 01:08 BST
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