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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Health & Safety Executive

The Provision of IT Security Testing

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000 48700000
Value£177k
Awarded9 Sept 2025
Published6 Jan 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£177ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Software & IT Systems band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Security testing that provides the level of assurance required by HSE and our stakeholders must be performed to the CHECK standard overseen by the National Cyber Security Centre.

This requires testers to maintain certification that guarantees a level of expertise and experience that is not available to HSE.

HSE have a need for frequent security testing of services we have developed, have been developed on our behalf or have a legal obligation to provide.

HSE do not have the requisite skills or tools to meet the various criteria of assurance bodies.

HSE must provide assurances to our parent body, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Cabinet Office (CO), and the HSE board that we are safe to do work with.

This includes our obligations to be GDPR and DPA 2018 compliant.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Security testing that provides the level

Security testing that provides the level of assurance required by HSE and our stakeholders must be performed to the CHECK standard overseen by the National Cyber Security Centre.

02

This requires testers to maintain certification

This requires testers to maintain certification that guarantees a level of expertise and experience that is not available to HSE.

03

HSE have a need for frequent security

HSE have a need for frequent security testing of services we have developed, have been developed on our behalf or have a legal obligation to provide.

04

HSE must provide assurances to our parent

HSE must provide assurances to our parent body, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Cabinet Office (CO), and the HSE board that we are safe to do work with.

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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.

UK GDPR / data protectionContract conditions
This includes our obligations to be GDPR and DPA 2018 compliant.

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Source & provenance
OCID
371d33c3-1bce-4d7f-bf07-b77d884e2cd7
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
1.11.4.4656.
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