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# WHC - 3rd party Security Operations Centre 3 year contract

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/whc-3rd-party-security-operations-centre-3-year-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-065cb4). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** West Herts College: "WHC - 3rd party Security Operations Centre 3 year contract". Published status: active. Published Value: £90,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 13 Mar 2026, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: suppliers.multiquote.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [West Herts College](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/west-herts-college-urn-130720)
- **Published Value:** £90,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 13 March 2026 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/whc-3rd-party-security-operations-centre-3-year-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-065cb4#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-065cb4`

## 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/whc-3rd-party-security-operations-centre-3-year-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-065cb4#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [suppliers.multiquote.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsuppliers.multiquote.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/whc-3rd-party-security-operations-centre-3-year-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-065cb4#participate

## Description
The 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £90,000

- **Contract Period:** 31/07/2026 to 31/07/2029

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F017164-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-02-26T09:45:21.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-26T00:53:20.215Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-065cb4