Official UK procurement notice
WHC - 3rd party Security Operations Centre 3 year contract
Authority: West Herts College (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Scope
- Deliver 24/7 cyber monitoring to react to threats within incident SLA.
- Take on cyber threat tickets that are raised via West Herts – Averaging 2 tickets a day (Mainly Phishing Attacks).
- Monitor and triage security alerts from security tooling and logs.
- Tier 3 analyst should be involved in decision making not AI tooling. Al tooling should be used for detection and data gathering not for actioning any changes.
- Support the West Herts security team via best practices and be a part of the key DR testing, pen testing and recovery actions.
- Access to an account manager or team lead when needed.
- Support small change activity when required,
o 20% Small Change
o 80% Day to day Operations
- Looking for a small team resource pool to start with this will be reviewed each year as the business demand grows.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£90,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality
- Price
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Feb 2026, 09:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Feb 2026, 09:45 GMT
- Authority reference
CA17266- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-017164- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065cb4Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 13 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 4 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
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Timeline
26 Feb 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published242 days ago26 Feb 2026, 09:45 GMT
- Clarification questions by236 days ago4 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline227 days ago13 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract starts86 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published26 Feb 2026, 09:45 GMTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender