Design & Build: Industrial Control System (ICS) Network
Wales & West Utilities (WWU) is embarking upon a significant programme of work to re-architect its industrial control system (ICS) networks to meet recognised best-practice architectures to ensure a secure and resilient industrial network now and for the future.
WWU is seeking to partner with an organisation who can work with us on this endeavour and is interested in hearing from companies with expertise in architecting secure operational technology (OT) environments in Microsoft Azure.
This is a design and build tender, and the successful supplier will work with us on all aspects and phases of this programme, from design, through to proof of concept and testing and production deployment.
You will be required to - • Design, document and deploy new Azure networks • Consult, advise and design OT architecture and governance processes • Design a layered network at Purdue layers 3 and 3.5 • Align the architecture closely to SANS ICS reference architecture • Produce high quality architectural design documentation, to include diagrams produced in a recognised diagramming language such as UML In order to be considered for this contract, you must meet the following requirements - • You must be NCSC CAF assured • You must have previous experience in designing OT/ICS architectures and the Purdue reference architecture. • You must have prior experience of designing in Microsoft Azure environments • Companies with this experience of undertaking similar projects in the CNI sector are of particular interest.
Please note: this tender does not include a discovery phase.
WWU would like to invite expressions of interest (EOI) based on the information specified and for interested suppliers to submit their EOI to rebecca.crisp@wwutilities.co.uk via email.
They will then be invited to the PQQ which will go live on 2nd January.
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Wales & West Utilities (WWU) is embarking
Wales & West Utilities (WWU) is embarking upon a significant programme of work to re-architect its industrial control system (ICS) networks to meet recognised best-practice architectures to ensure a secure and resilient industrial network now and for the future.
In order to be considered for this
In order to be considered for this contract, you must meet the following requirements.
You must be NCSC CAF assured
You must be NCSC CAF assured.
You must have previous experience in designing
You must have previous experience in designing OT/ICS architectures and the Purdue reference architecture.
You must have prior experience of designing
You must have prior experience of designing in Microsoft Azure environments.
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