Preliminary market engagement notice085261-2026
Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service
- Market engagement closes
- Published9 Sep 2026
- Estimated value
- Value not published
- Contract term
- 14 Apr 2028 to 30 Apr 2030 (2 years)
- Lots
- Not divided into lots
- Categories
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- Regions
- UK-wide
The buyer’s description
“The Student Loans company (SLC) have an agreement for Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service expiring April 2028. In order to provision for a retender of the agreement SLC are undertaking pre-market engagement with regards to the provision of the following:
• Requirement A: Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service - MXDR Service (2026-TR-0109a)
• Requirement B: Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service - Vulnerability Management (VM) Service (2026-TR-0109b)
• Requirement C: Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service - Breach Attack Simulation (BAS) Service (2026-TR-0109c)
• Requirement D: Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service - Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) Service (2026-TR-0109d)
• Requirement E: Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service - Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Retainer Service (2026-TR-0109e)
• Requirement F: Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service - Security Architecture and Engineering Support Services (2026-TR-0109f) SLC is considering an approach to the market to give the suppliers an option to bid for one or ALL of the contractual requirements. Requirement A Enhanced Security Operations Managed Service - MXDR Service The Supplier will provide a Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) capability operating on a hybrid customer/supplier model. MXDR Service The Supplier will provide:
• 24x7x365 monitoring of SLC security telemetry.
• L1 and L2 Security Operations Centre capability (SLC retain L3).
• Incident identification, triage and investigation.
• Security use-case monitoring and tuning.
• Management of Microsoft Sentinel detections.”