Published date: 21 November 2023

Withdrawn opportunity - This means that the contract has been withdrawn early. This could be due to a change of circumstances.


Closing: 25 October 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Information technology services - 72222300

Location of contract

LS1 4AW

Value of contract

£0 to £625,000

Procurement reference

CF-1978400D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

21 November 2023

Closing date

25 October 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

14 September 2023

Contract end date

27 October 2024

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

This contract is to extend the Cyber Incident Reponse contract.

The Cyber Security Operations Centre provides cyber incident response services (CIRT) to NHS England and other organisations in the NHS ecosystem. As part of the vulnerability response the CSOC required support from Deloitte (one of our CIRT providers on retainer) to carry out forensic investigations and threat hunting to detect possible exploitations of vulnerability and attacks. This variation increase of 25% of the overall contract charge. This is due to unforeseen cyber incidents requiring CIRT teams to be deployed to NHS organisations to both prevent cyber incidents and/or investigate/recover from cyber incidents. These teams are able to support NHS organisations with patching, forensic investigations as well as recovery activities if local teams do not have capacity/capability. The CIRT capability is provided by 3rd party NCSC certified suppliers and the CSOC has call-off contracts in-place enabling the CSOC to periodically top-up a retainer of hours and call-off as needed.

There are a number of reasons why a new procurement process has not been possible until now. NHS England is committed to procuring the future provision and requires adequate time to do so. The total value of this modification does not exceed 50% of the original contract value.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Cyber Incident Response Contract Value Extension - Deloitte Reg 72(1)(b)

  • Awarded contract
  • Published 1 November 2023

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

NHS Digital Commercial

Address

7 Wellington Pl
Leeds
LS1 4AW
GB

Email

commercial.operations@nhs.net