The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Cyber Security Services 3 Extension Notice
The submission route named on the official notice.
This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.
The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service publishes IT Services work continuously — 23 notices, roughly one every 58 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.
67% of The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.
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Crown Commercial Service (CCS) set up a dynamic purchasing system for a period of 60 months and has invited bidders to request to participate for the Cyber Security Services 3 DPS.
This DPS provides central government departments and the wider public sector with the opportunity to procure cyber services from a range of suppliers.
The DPS filters are for certification, services, standards and experience.
Appointed suppliers will be invited by customers (buyers) to submit tenders for relevant services through a call for competition.
This notice is to advise that this DPS has been extended to 13th February 2029 and based on current spend profiling the estimated total value remains as £800million.
What this notice demands of you
2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) set up a dynamic purchasing system for a period of 60 months and has invited bidders to request to participate for the Cyber Security Services 3 DPS.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) set up a dynamic purchasing system for a period of 60 months and has invited bidders to request to participate for the Cyber Security Services 3 DPS.
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.
What it takes to bid this
Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.
Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%
Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack
- Hold at bidCyber Essentials Plus (often mandatory for gov IT)
- Hold at bidISO 27001 (information security)
- Plan for deliveryData protection / DPIA readiness
- Show at bidComparable references / case studies
- Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
- Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
- Show at bidSocial value commitments
Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.
Skills, tools & certifications
Detected from the notice — the capabilities and credentials this bid calls for. Click one to see who wins that work.
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- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-05867f
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 048167-2025
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