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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

DBS (Defence Business Services) IT Health Check & Pentesting

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50000000
Value£16k
Awarded9 Mar 2022
Published23 Jan 2024
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£16ktotal contract value
median £130k
this tender£0£4.8m

This sits below the typical range for Repair & Maintenance contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Requirement for Technical Support to undertake a penetration tests of the Oracle CP&F and CSMI Solution in Walker House at the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022.

This will be conducted on an environment of the Pre-Production network.

Requirement for a CESG 'green-light' CHECK service provider who additionally has PCI.

PCI is a Payment Card Industry Standard which demonstrates compliance with associated banking standards.

The CHECK service provider should be MOD 'SC' security cleared.

The service provider is to thoroughly penetration test a given environment which will act as a representative test environment for Production.

The service provider is to deliver MOD SC security cleared resources for all testing activities.

The service provider would need to be familiar with Oracle (specifically eBusiness Suite) functionality and its associated database architecture.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Requirement for Technical Support to undertake

Requirement for Technical Support to undertake a penetration tests of the Oracle CP&F and CSMI Solution in Walker House at the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022.

02

PCI is a Payment Card Industry Standard

PCI is a Payment Card Industry Standard which demonstrates compliance with associated banking standards.

03

The CHECK service provider should be MOD

The CHECK service provider should be MOD 'SC' security cleared.

04

The service provider is to deliver MOD

The service provider is to deliver MOD SC security cleared resources for all testing activities.

05

The service provider would need to

The service provider would need to be familiar with Oracle (specifically eBusiness Suite) functionality and its associated database architecture.

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Source & provenance
OCID
78f61d01-4a9a-4c48-adfc-9bed547137ed
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
RM1557.12/DPS00134
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