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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency)

Homes England - Independent Assessor for GovAssure

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£200k
Awarded19 Jan 2026
Published5 Feb 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£200ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the IT Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Homes England requires an independent assurance review under GovAssure for its critical system, Microsoft 365 Copilot, against the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) Baseline profile.

The supplier will validate the self-assessment, review evidence, conduct interviews, and produce an Independent Assurance Review Report (IARR) via WebCAF.

Mandatory requirements include SC clearance and adherence to Homes England confidentiality policies.

Procured via CCS Cyber Security Services 3 DPS (RM3764.3).

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 2 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

SC (security check) clearancesays mustPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
Mandatory requirements include SC clearance and adherence to Homes England confidentiality policies.
Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
Procured via CCS Cyber Security Services 3 DPS (RM3764.3).
NCSC Cyber Assessment FrameworkCertification & assessment schemes
Homes England requires an independent assurance review under GovAssure for its critical system, Microsoft 365 Copilot, against the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) Baseline profile.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
40d4cfb8-ffd5-492a-a35d-79d79f0cd534
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
HCA001-DN802444-53399628
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