Early Market Engagement - Security Operations Centre

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is in the process of replacing its legacy IT estate with modern SAAS based applications.

As such it is seeking to implement a modern Security Operations Centre (SOC) service to secure the next generation estate.

DBS has completed market engagement previously under Crown Commercial Services Framework RM3764.3 Cyber Security Services 3, which informed our approach to the contract and identified the types of information bidders would prefer to receive in any ITT process to enable an effective response to be provided.

We will share the findings from that market engagement as part of this market engagement.

This market engagement is to share our draft requirements, implementation expectations and to highlight the challenges we face in providing information to bidders for the SOC given that most applications to be monitored will be newly implemented and have no historical data.

DBS intends to undertake market engagement to assess whether our requirements are aligned to market expectation and to gauge interest in the opportunity, to help inform the approach DBS will take to its procurement of the services.

We anticipate market engagement will commence on 25th November 2024.

At this stage we believe CCS Framework RM3764 Cyber Security 3 is the most appropriate framework to source our requirements.

For the avoidance of doubt, DBS does not commit to using this framework (or indeed any framework) to procure its requirements.

More information about DBS and its operations can be found at: Disclosure and Barring Service - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Please also see further detail in Section 5 of this notice.

Action for suppliers: Suppliers wishing to participate in this online market engagement should register by emailing DBSTenders@dbs.gov.uk with confirmation they are registered on Home Office Jaggaer.

Suppliers who are not yet registered can do so here: https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html .

The market engagement event will be open for participation from 25th November 2024 until 6th December 2024 and will be conducted via Jaggaer.

Please ensure you register in good time to enable your participation.