Official UK procurement notice
NW2237 -the provision of OT Anomaly Detection Solution (Hardware, Software, Implementation & Support)
Authority: NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorthumbrian Water Limited (NWL) provide water and sewerage services to just under 4.4 million people operating principally in the North-East of England and Essex and Suffolk. It is NWL's vision 'to be the most digital water company in the world' therefore it is our mission to find a partner to support our Developer Services Product.
NWL would like to identify a partner to supply and help implement an OT Anomaly Detection solution with the right functionality that supports our business needs and provides future flexibility as our business evolves and grows its cyber capabilities.
Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL) has a regulatory requirement to implement an Operational Technology (OT) anomaly detection solution as part of our cyber resilience enhancement programme. This programme aims to deliver multiple benefits across the company by enhancing our cyber security strategy, processes, and tools to ensure compliance with the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive.
We require a commercial, off-the-shelf solution which can be deployed by our onsite engineers, with the help and guidance from the vendor's support team.
The OT Anomaly detection solution is required to:
- Provide automated asset inventory capability
- Identify and risk assess vulnerabilities for the assets identified
- Monitoring of configuration changes
- Provide understanding of data connectivity
- Carry out Anomaly Detection to highlight and risk assess potential security incidents to be investigated
A key part of our cyber resilience enhancement programme is to improve the security posture of our OT estate and after recently implementing a managed hybrid Security Operations Centre (SOC), we aim to bring our OT monitoring, detection, and response in line with our existing IT capability. To effectively integrate with our SOC, any OT anomaly detection system must be capable of sending alerts (at minimum) to our SIEM (Splunk Cloud).
In addition to the security monitoring enhancements the OT anomaly detection system will bring to our compliance with the NIS Directive/Regulations, the additional asset discovery and vulnerability identification are key areas in which we expect the solution to assist.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 16 Dec 2022, 15:27 GMT
- Last source update
- 16 Dec 2022, 15:27 GMT
- Authority reference
NW2237- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-035720- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-039213Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
Please see the terms and conditions in the procurement documents.
Publisher note: Applicants are asked to note that this procurement process will be conducted electronically with all documents and communication being managed through the Northumbrian Water eSourcing Spend Management portal called 'Ariba'. Expressions of interest for this tender must be sent to the e-mail address [email protected] before the deadline date of 06/01/23 at 12 noon. Once expression of interest has been received that contains the details below, applicants will be given access to the Ariba portal within 48 hours from request. This portal will contain all the tender documents associated with this procurement that are available at the time. An email link will also be provided to the email address you provide to access the portal. The deadline for return of the completed PQQ is 16/01/23 at 12 noon. When sending expression of interest, applicants must provide the following information: 1) Full company name 2)Main contact details of the person who will be given access to the Ariba portal- Name, Job title, Emails address and telephone.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 6 Jan 2023, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Deposits and guarantees
If the Dun and Bradstreet credit rating returns a rating of 'above average risk' or 'high risk', the contracting entity will request further financial information for review and a parent company guarantee may be required.
Timeline
16 Dec 2022 → 6 Jan 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published16 Dec 2022, 15:27 GMT
- Submission deadline6 Jan 2023, 12:00 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NWL Legal DepartmentReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.