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Managed Security Services for Medicines Discovery Catapult
Authority: MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT SERVICES LIMITED
CPV: Software package and information systems (48000000)
Published contract value£195,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 28 Feb 2028
Awarded to Softcat Plc
Contract starts 1 Mar 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMedicines Discovery Catapult required a managed detection and response and for an effective EDR tool. The EDR provision was evaluated on the basis of Mean Time to Detect (MTTD), ease
and speed of deployment within the Windows, Mac and Linux estate, detection capabilities (as scored by MITRE ATT&CK evaluations).
The tender was ran as a competition under the NHS SBS Digital Solutions framework.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- 0311
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- England, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision24 Jan 2025
- Contract starts1 Mar 2025
- Notice published8 Jul 2025
- Contract ends28 Feb 2028
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT SERVICES LIMITEDContracting authority
- Identifier
- sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/jv925UDD · GB-SRS
Suppliers named on the notice
- Softcat PlcSupplier
- Identifier
- 02174990 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-f06be353-b062-4240-b63c-b1fb2d458a79-2025-07-08T15:32:40+01:00
- Published
- 8 Jul 2025
- Latest update
- 8 Jul 2025
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-f06be353-b062-4240-b63c-b1fb2d458a79
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-f06be353-b062-4240-b63c-b1fb2d458a79-1