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Security Operations Centre

Awarded United Kingdom IT services

Buyer Skills Development Scotland Ltd

€1.9M awarded value · €1,864,235

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Awarded to

Aspire Technology Solutions

Awarded value
€1,864,235
Record with this buyer
1 first contract from this buyer in the register

Summary

Machine-generated summary

Skills Development Scotland Ltd awarded a contract for a Security Operations Centre to Aspire Technology Solutions. The services cover a co-managed environment, a partner cyber incident retainer, monitoring and assurance, delegated authority on servers, SOC services, cyber resilience, tooling, service desk hours and out of hours cover, incident response management, vulnerability management, and identity and access monitoring integration. The contract was procured through the Scottish Government's Digital Technology and Cyber Services Dynamic Purchasing System using PCS-Tender (SC Ref:831844). The award was made on 2026-04-06 for EUR 1,864,234.90.

Timing

  1. Awarded
  2. Published

Description

he scope of the tendered services covers provision of: - Co-Managed Environment - Partner Cyber Incident Retainer - Monitoring & Assurance - Delegated Authority on Servers - SOC Services - Cyber Resilience - Tooling - Service Desk Hours/Out of Hours - Incident Response Management - Vulnerability Management - Identify and access monitoring integration Award against framework: Digital Technology and Cyber Services Dynamic Purchasing System This contract was procured through the Scottish Government's Dynamic Purchasing System for Digital and Cyber Services and was carried out through PCS-Tender (SC Ref:831844)

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Source: Public Contracts Scotland

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Market

IT services in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€176,267
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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 1,297 awards for IT services in United Kingdom.

This award
€1.9M
Median award
€176,267
Middle half of past awards
€81,638 to €585,138

The award is larger than three in four past awards.

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

Market context

open now in IT services
3,308
median open notice
€468,579

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · IT services

different companies won awards here
794
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
10%
buyers awarded contracts here
426

Based on 1,459 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.

The buyer in figures

Skills Development Scotland Ltd

notices in the register
13
awards
10
awarded in total
€3.0M

Who wins its contracts

Moderately concentrated
different companies won its awards
8
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
50%

Based on 10 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.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Skills Development Scotland Ltd

United Kingdom

Awards most often to

  1. Gartner 2 awards €492,302
  2. Computacenter (UK) limited 2 awards €145,068
  3. Aspire Technology Solutions 1 award €1.9M

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