Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Medicines Discovery Catapult Services Limited · Drug Discovery / Health
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £195,000
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Jan 2025
- Published8 Jul 2025Published 165 days after the contract date
Description
Medicines Discovery Catapult required a managed detection and response and for an effective EDR tool. The EDR provision was evaluated on the basis of Mean Time to Detect (MTTD), ease and speed of deployment within the Windows, Mac and Linux estate, detection capabilities (as scored by MITRE ATT&CK evaluations). The tender was ran as a competition under the NHS SBS Digital Solutions framework.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).