Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Suppliers
- Not named
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Security services (CPV 79710000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 057493-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Aug 2025
- Published17 Sep 2025Published 42 days after the contract date
Description
The scope of work is to deliver a Secure Service Edge (SSE) solution to enable Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). This new service will provide SGN with enhanced security controls to protect enterprise traffic to the internet, cloud services, and applications. The solution is intended for an initial three-year term, with the option to extend for a further two years. The project will replace our current web proxy service with a Secure Service Edge (SSE) solution. SSE provides continuous risk assessment of sessions to be able to react in real time to risky behaviour, unlike current web proxies which only risk assess on connection. ZTNA and SSE will provide connectivity from any device based on identity, allowing for more flexible working end user use cases. This will also provide better risk assessments due to wider context of security controls applied to the sessions. This enhanced capability ensures more comprehensive protection for SGN now and into the future for management of cyber r…