Published date: 18 August 2021

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 6 September 2021, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Project management consultancy services - 72224000

  • Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000

Location of contract

SW1 5A

Value of contract

£0 to £6,000

Procurement reference

RFQ 614

Published date

18 August 2021

Closing date

6 September 2021

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

20 September 2021

Contract end date

30 November 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Royal Society's Data Programme is developing policy and promoting debate that helps the UK safely and rapidly realise the growing benefits of data and digital technologies. In 2019, the Royal Society launched the report Protecting privacy in practice: The current use, development and limits of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in data analysis. One of our activities following from this report is an exploration of the status and role of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs): technologies or conceptual approaches that allow the derivation of useful insights from data without requiring full data access. Some examples include homomorphic encryption, zero knowledge proofs, differential privacy and secure multi-party computation.

The Royal Society has launched a refresher project to update the 2019 report, which will be published in late 2021. This shall include an updated review of PETs applications, legal / regulatory concerns and an illustrative set of use cases. This commissioned review is a foundational piece of our evidence gathering for this project; it will inform our understanding of the regulatory landscape and possible futures with regard to PETs.

The Society seek to engage a Supplier to provide a review in three parts:
1. a review of certification and assurance of PETs;
2. an overview of certification and assurance practices in cybersecurity since 2000; and
3. a synthesis discussion that draws from both reviews to identify transferrable lessons from the recent history of cybersecurity assurance that may (or may not) apply to PETs.
Please see Attachment 1 - The Brief for more details.

More information

Attachments

Additional text

Please read the brief and if you choose to submit a quote, please complete, and email the registration form at Attachment 5 ASAP

About the buyer

Contact name

June Brawner

Address

6 Carlton House Terrace
LONDON
SW1Y5AG
England

Telephone

+44 20 7451 2000

Email

June.Brawner@royalsociety.org