This Prior Information Notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the Cyber Security market.
Crown Commercial Service intends to hold market engagement sessions during June, July and August 2019 with industry experts, buyers and suppliers interested in potentially bidding for the resulting commercial agreement. If you are interested in attending a market engagement session please express your interest by registering on the CCS Pipeline Page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/upcoming where further details will be available.
If you wish to provide some feedback directly to CCS, you can do so by contacting techsolutions@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Your email must clearly state: the name of your organisation, and contact details.
Please note that dates and values detailed in this notice will be refined during the market engagement and analysis phase, as such they are indicative only.
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is [https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk].
Should the commercial agreement be deemed suitable for a Dynamic Purchasing System, it will be hosted on the Dynamic Purchasing System Marketplace on gov.uk
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS pipeline page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/upcoming
For updates and monitor Tenders Electronic Daily for the publication of the OJEU Contract Notice.
Please be advised that in preparation to participate in this competition for this framework that:
The Cyber Essentials scheme is mandatory for Central Government Contracts which involve handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. The Government is taking steps to further reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain through the Cyber Essentials scheme. The scheme defines a set of controls which, when properly implemented, will provide organisations with basic protection from the most prevalent forms of threat coming from the internet.
To participate in the procurement for the Cyber Security 3, bidders will be required to demonstrate that they comply with the technical requirements prescribed by Cyber Essentials Plus for the services under and in connection with the procurement.
The bidder may be awarded a framework contract or DPS agreement but shall not enter into any call-off contracts with buyers until they are able to demonstrate to CCS that they meet the technical requirements prescribed by the Cyber Essentials Plus Scheme for services under and in connection with this procurement.
The service that arise from this framework or DPS agreement will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the Government Security Classifications Scheme (April 2014) of official. It will be a condition of this contract that this material must be protected. Baseline protection controls are defined in ISO27001:2013 and further defined by the Security Policy Framework https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-security