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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 2 hours ago Contract notice

Hybrid Security Operations Centre (SOC)

Open United Kingdom Software & IT systems

Buyer British Film Institute

25 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€177,211
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 25 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

25 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 19 and 31 days, based on 2,174 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

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The British Film Institute (BFI) is procuring a Hybrid Security Operations Centre under a contract running on a 1+1+1 year basis. The service must operate 24/7, 365 days a year, with a hybrid SOC service design launching a new hybrid SOC operating model by 31 March 2027, the end of BFI's financial year Q4-2027. By the end of the first contract year the supplier must demonstrate operational capability covering continuous monitoring of agreed critical systems, detection of priority cyber threats, investigation of security events, response to P1/P2 incidents, proactive threat hunting, protected security logs, incident escalation, management-level security reporting and remediation of monitoring gaps. Expressions of interest are accepted only via the BFI in-tend portal.

Description

The British Film Institute (BFI) is looking for a supplier to provide a Hybrid Security Operations Centre (SOC) on a 1+1+1 year basis. It will consist a 24/7 for 365 days SOC with a Hybrid SOC Service Design for a new Hybrid SOC Operating Model by end of BFI’s financial year end Q4-2027, 31 March 2027. At the end of the first contracted year, the Supplier shall have established a demonstrable operational capability that enables BFI to: - Continuously monitor agreed critical systems; - Detect priority cyber threats; - Investigate security events; - Respond to P1/P2 incidents; - Undertake proactive threat hunting; - Maintain protected security logs; - Demonstrate appropriate incident escalation; - Provide management-level security reporting; and - Identify and remediate material monitoring gaps. To take part in this tender, please visit our website, at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/bfi/aspx/Tenders/Current , where you will need to register, if you haven’t already, and express an interest in this opportunity to access the relevant documents. Please note expressions of interest will only be accepted via the portal.

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  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €177,211.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Software & IT systems.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    25 days left, 18 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €68,671 and €389,115.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 952 awards for Software & IT systems in United Kingdom.

This notice
€177,211
Median award
€148,539
Middle half of past awards
€68,671 to €389,115

The estimate sits inside the usual range.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

British Film Institute

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Software & IT systems - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
SOFTCAT PLC 78 €64.9M Oct 2026
COMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITED 50 €9.4M Oct 2026
Computacenter 31 €16.6M Sep 2026
PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED 30 €94.1M Sep 2026
Civica UK Limited 29 €8.6M Oct 2026

Based on 1082 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

Market context

Larger than 28% of the open notices in Software & IT systems across Europe.

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Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

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different companies won awards here
543
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
15%
buyers awarded contracts here
395

Based on 1,071 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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