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awarded GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs

# TRN 1052/07/2105 - Supply of Cyber Security Technical Benchmarking

[Department of Energy and Climate Change](https://tendernation.io/buyers/department-of-energy-and-climate-change)

Incumbent usually keeps it

Estimated value

£27,000

Published

18 Nov 2016

Deadline

Closed

25 May 2015

## Who can bid

- Buyer says suitable for SMEs

    The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid.
- Small contract value

    Valued under £135,018 including VAT, the lowest Procurement Act threshold for goods and services.
- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

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## About this tender

The E3CC High-level Risks and Control Assessment across the downstream gas and electricity sectors identified the following priority areas of shared risk on which industry have requested HMG support. This work will look at the best practices and maturity of management across members in both Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) environments of their companies for:

- Access control and identity management
- Communications management, including remote access
- Management of end point security and data leakage prevention

For each of the topic areas, the following process will be followed:

Background research will be carried out to look at existing standards, general best practices and any specific standards and practices relevant to the electricity and gas sectors. From these, and initial conversations with the E3CC members as well as reference back to the E3CC cyber security risk assessment, a series of themes, sub-topics and key questions will be developed. The aim is to identify levels of maturity as well as lessons learnt/key best practices.

The key questions will then be used to survey the E3CC membership, usually in the form of a telephone interview. (Participation is voluntary, but past benchmarks have gained the involvement of 80-100% of all 16 members; we expect the contractor to work with us at the earliest opportunity, if involvement looks to be significantly less than this, i.e.

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## CPV classification

Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

Source

Contracts Finder (UK)

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