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BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service

IT ServicesCPV 72222300
Value£2.3m
Deadline23 Jun 2025
Published28 May 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 28 May 2025ClosedCloses 23 Jun 2025
Who to contact
no_reply@bbc.co.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£2.3mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The requirement for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service sits within the BBC Technology and Media Operations group, and specifically the Digital Distribution team. * Digital Distribution has had a Network DDoS Protection service in place since 2016 to protect the BBC’s Internet Network.

The purpose of this is to provide a malicious traffic ‘scrubbing’ facility in the event of a volumetric packet-based or protocol-based traffic attack targeting the services on the network and exhausting circuit or server capacity.

It forms part of a suite of protection services and techniques required to continually protect the BBC’s Internet edge from attack. * The BBC’s Internet Network carries all the BBC's audience facing traffic and CDN origin traffic.

Additionally, it provides transit for the corporate network.

The availability of this network and services delivered across it are crucial in maintaining the BBC’s online presence for critical services such as www.bbc.co.uk and BBC iPlayer. * The current DDoS protection service has been provided by the incumbent supplier since 2019.

The BBC is now entering a tender process to procure this service from December 2025 and ensure continued network DDoS protection.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The purpose of this is to provide

The purpose of this is to provide a malicious traffic ‘scrubbing’ facility in the event of a volumetric packet-based or protocol-based traffic attack targeting the services on the network and exhausting circuit or server capacity.

02

It forms part of a suite

It forms part of a suite of protection services and techniques required to continually protect the BBC’s Internet edge from attack.

03

The BBC is now entering a tender

The BBC is now entering a tender process to procure this service from December 2025 and ensure continued network DDoS protection.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052808
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
028141-2025
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