Home Office - Police and Public Protection Technology
Identify the secutity requirements and provide a secuity risk assessment
8 Incomplete applications
7 SME, 1 large
13 Completed applications
11 SME, 2 large
Important dates
- Published
- Friday 7 September 2018
- Deadline for asking questions
- Tuesday 11 September 2018 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Friday 14 September 2018 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Cyber security consultant
- Summary of the work
- Security specialist to identify security requirements for the Hendon Data Centre Virtual Estate deployment. Once the requirements have been identified the specialist is required to produce a security risk assessment for submission to the Home Office accreditor. The contract will include any subsequent feedback from the H.O. accreditor to action
- Latest start date
- Monday 8 October 2018
- Expected contract length
- 3/4 days
- Location
- London
- Organisation the work is for
- Home Office - Police and Public Protection Technology
- Maximum day rate
About the work
- Early market engagement
- There are a large number of suppliers within the security market for accrediting IT systems. There are suppliers who are already on the G-cloud framework, which support the necessary requirements
- Who the specialist will work with
- The specialist will work with Virtual Estate project manager, technical teams and stakeholders for the police open systems and directly with the Home Office security accreditor
- What the specialist will work on
- Provide security requirements and produce a security risk assessment suitable for accreditation. This will support the development of a virtual estate within Hendon Data Centre
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
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Hendon Data Centre
London
NW9 - Working arrangements
- The specialist will need to communicate (via workshops) will the stakeholders on site for 2 days and off site (optional) to produce security risk assessment
- Security clearance
- SC cleared (Active)
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
- Standard contract conditions apply
Skills and experience
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
- Essential skills and experience
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- Security accreditation to provide services to Government
- Have recent experience of producing high quality security risk assessments to Government orgnisations
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Delivered services relating to data centre security and VMWare configuation
How suppliers will be evaluated
- How many specialists to evaluate
- 5
- Cultural fit criteria
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- Take personal responsibility to deliver high quality reports
- Able to communiacte with stakeholders professionally
- Assessment methods
- Work history
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
75%Cultural fit
5%Price
20%
Questions asked by suppliers
- 1. Yes I can confirm this piece of work relates to Hendon Data Centre.
- The scope of the project is to deliver a virtual estate to host tenants for critical policing systems/applications. The elements are 1. VMware config - Cisco UCS. 2. SAN storage 3. Security. Service support. This request for an SME is specifically for the gathering of security risk information in order to submit that security risk assessment to the accreditor. In gathering the information there is a requirement to prepare for the ITHC, but not complete the ITHC
- 2. We’ve been using the SWIFT Risk Discovery method recently, but if a supplier has a viable alternative that will provide a robust risk assessment then this is acceptable
- We’ve been using the SWIFT Risk Discovery method recently, but if a supplier has a viable alternative that will provide a robust risk assessment then this is acceptable
- 3. Yes, the SME will work with a engineer
- Yes, the SME will work with a engineer
- 4. Yes the project manager will arrange and coordinate workshops
- Yes the project manager will arrange and coordinate workshops
- 5. Yes, I have posted an answer for a supplier in 1
- Yes, I have posted an answer for a supplier in 1
- 6. Yes all day rates will include reasonable expenses and VAT
- Yes all day rates will include reasonable expenses and VAT
- 7. Yes consideration would be given to two resources, but this does not mean double the cost. If there are two resources working on this piece of work it is expected timescales would be reduced to complete the work
- Yes consideration would be given to two resources, but this does not mean double the cost. If there are two resources working on this piece of work it is expected timescales would be reduced to complete the work
- 8. The day rate has not been published as the authority invites competitive tender
- The day rate has not been published as the authority invites competitive tender