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title: "Design & Build: Industrial Control System (ICS) Network"
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# Design & Build: Industrial Control System (ICS) Network

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/design-build-industrial-control-system-ics-network-ocds-h6vhtk-042931). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Wales & West Utilities Limited: "Design & Build: Industrial Control System (ICS) Network". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 19 Jan 2024, 17:00 GMT. Published submission portal: sourcing4wwu.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Wales & West Utilities Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/wales-west-utilities-limited-coh-05046791)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 19 January 2024 at 17:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- **Delivery Location:** UKK, UKL
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-042931`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/design-build-industrial-control-system-ics-network-ocds-h6vhtk-042931#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [sourcing4wwu.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsourcing4wwu.bravosolution.co.uk%2Fweb%2Flogin.html)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/design-build-industrial-control-system-ics-network-ocds-h6vhtk-042931#participate

## Description
Wales & West Utilities (WWU) is embarking upon a significant programme of work to re-architect its industrial control system (ICS) networks to meet recognised best-practice architectures to ensure a secure and resilient industrial network now and for the future. WWU is seeking to partner with an organisation who can work with us on this endeavour and is interested in hearing from companies with expertise in architecting secure operational technology (OT) environments in Microsoft Azure.
This is a design and build tender, and the successful supplier will work with us on all aspects and phases of this programme, from design, through to proof of concept and testing and production deployment.
You will be required to -
• Design, document and deploy new Azure networks
• Consult, advise and design OT architecture and governance processes
• Design a layered network at Purdue layers 3 and 3.5
• Align the architecture closely to SANS ICS reference architecture
• Produce high quality architectural design documentation, to include diagrams produced in a recognised diagramming language such as UML
In order to be considered for this contract, you must meet the following requirements -
• You must be NCSC CAF assured
• You must have previous experience in designing OT/ICS architectures and the Purdue reference architecture.
• You must have prior experience of designing in Microsoft Azure environments
• Companies with this experience of undertaking similar projects in the CNI sector are of particular interest.
Please note: this tender does not include a discovery phase. 
WWU would like to invite expressions of interest (EOI) based on the information specified and for interested suppliers to submit their EOI to rebecca.crisp@wwutilities.co.uk via email.  They will then be invited to the PQQ which will go live on 2nd January.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKK, UKL

- **Description:** WWU is embarking upon a significant programme of work (called the 'Galileo Programme') to re-architect its industrial control system (ICS) networks to (a) meet recognised best-practice architectures to ensure a secure and resilient industrial network...

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F037683-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-12-21T13:38:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T09:58:56.239Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-042931