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
- Islington & Shoreditch Housing Association Limited · Housing Association
- Value
- £573,995.23
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Computer-related professional services (CPV 72590000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 097134-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date7 May 2026
- Published14 Oct 2026Published 160 days after the contract date
Description
The Authority is procuring cyber security services to support the organisation's security posture, operational resilience, and ability to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. The required services may include, but are not limited to: Security assessment services, including IT health checks and vulnerability assessments; Incident response and threat management services, including cyber incident handling, threat intelligence and business continuity support; Managed security services, such as managed detection and response (MDR), Security Operations Centre (SOC) services, and continuous monitoring; Specialist cyber consultancy, including risk assessment, security architecture, cyber maturity analysis, security strategy, policy development and transformation activities. These services must be delivered by suppliers admitted to the Crown Commercial Service Dynamic Purchasing System Cyber Security Services 3 (RM3764.3) and selected through the appropriate DPS filteri…
About the supplier
Grant Thornton UK Advisory & Tax LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC454533).