Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Tower Hamlets · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- MTI Technology Ltd
- Value
- £499,875
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 038094-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Apr 2026
- Published27 Apr 2026Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
Requirements of the service: • Initial health assessment and configuration of the Council’s in-house Security Event and Incident Management (SIEM) solution (Microsoft Sentinel). • Secure log collection from both on-premises and cloud systems, with logs transmitted to an externally hosted intelligence platform for advanced threat analysis. • Adaptable detection policies, leveraging automated intelligence, supplier expertise, and council-provided threat intelligence. • Support for log ingestion from a wide range of infrastructure components, including Windows and Linux servers, firewalls, routers, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Defender, and Office 365. • No disruption to business operations during implementation. • 24x7x365 managed SOC service with incident response capabilities and access to subject matter experts. • Endpoint detection and response (EDR / XDR) • Incident detection, analysis, response and escalation. • Threat intelligence and threat hunting. • Monthly executive risk…
About the supplier
MTI Technology Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC112019).