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West Herts College

WHC - 3rd party Security Operations Centre 3 year contract

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£90k
Deadline13 Mar 2026
Published26 Feb 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 26 Feb 2026ClosedCloses 13 Mar 2026
Who to contact
emma.doree@westherts.ac.uk
01923 812000

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

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£90ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

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The brief

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.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Deliver 24/7 cyber monitoring to react

Deliver 24/7 cyber monitoring to react to threats within incident SLA.

02

Tier 3 analyst should be involved in

Tier 3 analyst should be involved in decision making not AI tooling.

03

Al tooling should be used for detection

Al tooling should be used for detection and data gathering not for actioning any changes.

04

Support the West Herts security team via

Support the West Herts security team via best practices and be a part of the key DR testing, pen testing and recovery actions.

05

Support small change activity when required

Support small change activity when required,.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
017164-2026
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