Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £157,500
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Mar 2026
- Published23 Jun 2026Published 84 days after the contract date
Description
Direct award to Blackwired (UK) Limited, via Softcat on KCS Software Products and Associated Services Y23065 Framework Please note; the contract period and value accounts for the maximum possible contract period and value. The contract period is 3 years. Blackwired is bringing to the market, with significant support from UK Gov, the ZeroDayLive platform that focuses on the adversary (bad actors) and operates in the dark web to identify the new and emerging threats. They provide finished and actionable intelligence combined with preventative immunisation on the day of detection, and critically at the pace of the adversary, to prevent cyber-attacks occurring. Interoperability: this intelligence is orchestrated directly into the existing CoLP Information Security Control Infrastructure to reinforce and enhance. CoLP tests (over 12 months - encompassing the Ukraine conflict period) have shown a measurable uplift of 150% in cyber-attack prevention. .
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).