Published date: 2 March 2020

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: 11 March 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

East of England

Value of contract

£60,000

Procurement reference

cdc36718-1a2e-4784-9f79-c35dadc7e3d1

Published date

2 March 2020

Closing date

11 March 2020

Contract start date

31 March 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2022

Contract type

Supply 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?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide datacentre services from two locations on VMware vSphere clusters, with over 250 virtual systems. Each datacentre provides application services for users, including file storage, database and web hosting.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust currently has no technology for centralised logging and analytics. A legacy solution is used for consuming syslog data from switches/firewalls but data storage is limited, and this provides no analytics. Investigations involve searching logs on individual appliances and attempting to piece data together manually which is very time consuming and gives inconsistent results.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust require a SIEM solution to meet the following requirement:

• Ingestion of logs from multiple sources spread across 2 datacentres and 3rd party hosting. Some resources are accessible from the Internet.
• Perform threat analytics on those logs and allow correlation of data for investigations.

Example Use Case 1
Royal Papworth Hospital receives alerts about endpoints exhibiting suspicious behaviour e.g. connecting to malicious websites. Because we use DHCP, we are unable to work out what endpoint was using that IP address at that specific time, what user was logged in to the device and what resources they accessed.

Example Use Case 2
Security alerts such as malware breakouts are difficult to track and require manual investigation on multiple dashboards.

Timescales on this project is for the complete delivery of solution no later than 31/03/2020

All Terms and Conditions are as per the NHS Standard T&Cs.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Jess Tipper

Address

Kingfisher House, Hingchingbrooke Business Park
Hingchingbrooke Business Park
Huntingdon
PE29 6FH
ENG

Telephone

+44 (0)1480 398692

Email

jess.tipper@nhs.net