Published date: 24 April 2017

Withdrawn early engagement


Closing date: 23 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

  • Administration services - 75100000

  • Other community, social and personal services - 98000000

Location of contract

West Midlands, London

Procurement reference

HS2 - IF1/2

Published date

24 April 2017

Closing date

23 February 2018

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

HS2 Ltd requires the services of a single Supplier who, as directed by the HS2 Intelligence Fusion Senior Manager, will:

(i) Provide in house intelligence gathering from open sources, database and analyst support to Hs2 as part of the Intelligence Fusion Team at HS2's offices in Birmingham.
(ii) Deliver reach back support from the service provider for additional specialist intelligence gathering support as required. This may include access to open source and consented marketing databases, and membership of any security groups, communities and services that may support this capability.
(iii) Conduct routine monitoring of open source intelligence in line with the HS2 provided Security Risk Register and the HS2 Model of Security in order to carry out general (HS2 wide) and functional (cyber, physical, information, personal, personnel etc..) intelligence and threat assessments.
(iv) Produce routine intelligence assessment reports based on routine open source intelligence insights and from any reach back service provided.
(v) Support the integration of these reports into detailed assessment reports produced from other intelligence sources (police, local authority and HS2 internal data sources)
(vi) Provide specific intelligence gathering activity from open sources in response to requests for intelligence support for planned events and activities and already identified threats.
(vii) Support the intelligence assessment of these events using the open source intelligence obtained and intelligence provided by other sources and data, and as directed by the HS2 Intelligence Fusion Senior Manager and produce specific assessment reports with recommended mitigation actions and points of contact for support
(viii) Support the coordination of internal and external data collection
(ix) Support the creation and maintenance of a HS2 owned security database (such as IBM i2 analysts notebook or Sentinel Visualiser) and incorporate data from internal and external sources into the database
(x) Provide intelligence analyst support and from the database and other sources identify security and intelligence trends and patterns, and geolocation of previous incidents, in order to proactively manage threats to HS2 and respond to requests for support
(xi) Support intelligence and security education and training across HS2 as directed by the HS2 Intelligence Fusion Senior Manager and the production of HS2 security and intelligence case studies


More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Intelligence Fusion Service

  • Early engagement
  • Published 24 April 2017, last edited 24 April 2017

Additional text

HS2 is intending to award a 3 year contract for an estimated total contract value of £750,000, commencing April 2017.

To express an interest in this opportunity please email Darrell Pulver at darrell.pulver@hs2.org.uk by no later than Friday 14th October 2016.


About the buyer

Contact name

Darrell Pulver

Address

2, Snow Hill
Birmingham
B4 6GA
England

Email

darrell.pulver@hs2.org.uk