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HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION CENTRE

HSCIC/DH Security Testing Services Call-Off - Framework RM1557vi

Business ServicesCPV 79700000
Value£10k
Awarded24 Aug 2015
Published23 May 2016
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£10ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits below the typical range for Business Services contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

HSCIC on behalf of Department of Health have contracted with a Primary and Secondary supplier for requirements relating to specialist security testing services, which are: • Security Testing and Vulnerability Analysis - such as Penetration testing, the provision of suitably (Check or Crest) qualified individuals able to perform application and infrastructure security testing in line with CESG requirements; • Security Assessment and audits – the provision of CLAS/ISO27001 Lead Auditors, who can perform all tests/audits against government standards/ISO27001/good practice; • Security consultancy – the provision of suitably (Check or Crest) qualified individuals to deliver specific security-related advice and consultancy in the areas of, but not limited to technology, architecture, risk assessment, risk treatment (as part of the ISO27001 ISMS risk assessment report) and threat assessment; • Security assurance – the provision of suitably (Check or Crest) qualified individuals to carry out assurance activities, including but not limited to supplier compliance reviews; • Forensics and investigations – the provision of suitably (Check or Crest) qualified individuals to conduct forensic and investigatory work, including but not limited to on site forensics, general security investigations and disk analysis.

This is the secondary contract.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Such as Penetration testing, the provision

such as Penetration testing, the provision of suitably (Check or Crest) qualified individuals able to perform application and infrastructure security testing in line with CESG requirements;.

02

The provision of suitably (Check or Crest)

the provision of suitably (Check or Crest) qualified individuals to deliver specific security-related advice and consultancy in the areas of, but not limited to technology, architecture, risk assessment, risk treatment (as part of the ISO27001 ISMS risk assessment report) and threat assessment;.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

ISO 27001 (information security)Standards you certify to
Security Assessment and audits – the provision of CLAS/ISO27001 Lead Auditors, who can perform all tests/audits against government standards/ISO27001/good practice;

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
9c7984d4-3a3d-42c3-be58-a969f60c340f
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
HCON00084B4
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