RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

OFSTED

I.T. Penetration Testing and I.T. Health Check Services

IT ServicesCPV 72254100
Value£100k
Awarded10 Nov 2022
Published6 Dec 2022
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£100ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the lower-middle of the IT Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The scope of the service is to provide Ofsted with NCSC assured service for penetration testing and IT health checks.

Testing will normally cover Ofsted infrastructure and perimeter on an annual basis as well as ad-hoc penetration testing required for projects as and when these occur.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The scope of the service is

The scope of the service is to provide Ofsted with NCSC assured service for penetration testing and IT health checks.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Ofsted registrationRegulator registrations
The scope of the service is to provide Ofsted with NCSC assured service for penetration testing and IT health checks.

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