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Department for International Trade

DBT Cyber Penetration Testing

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£125k
Awarded15 Sept 2023
Published27 Dec 2023
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£125ktotal 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

Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Cyber Penetration Testing - Government departments are required to use NCSC CHECK approved companies to conduct authorised ITHC of public sector systems and networks.

A contract has been awarded to two suppliers, to operate in a taxi-rank system to provide cyber penetration testing services for DBT.

This will allow DBT to understand where the organisation needs to focus their resources to maximise their cybersecurity posture, to gain assurance in the organisation's vulnerability assessment and management process and enables the appropriate management of risk.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Government departments are required to use NCSC

Government departments are required to use NCSC CHECK approved companies to conduct authorised ITHC of public sector systems and networks.

02

A contract has been awarded to two

A contract has been awarded to two suppliers, to operate in a taxi-rank system to provide cyber penetration testing services for DBT.

03

This will allow DBT to understand where

This will allow DBT to understand where the organisation needs to focus their resources to maximise their cybersecurity posture, to gain assurance in the organisation's vulnerability assessment and management process and enables the appropriate management of risk.

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