Scottish Government Seeks Shared Service Cyber SOC

As described in this £7m RFP Scotland Excel are looking for a partner who can help implement and monitor a managed security operations centre solution, and respond to security events as they arise.

This is a Prior Information Notice alerting to a full RFP to follow later.

Scottish Local Government

Scotland Excel is the procurement centre of expertise for the local government sector in Scotland. All 32 Scottish councils are currently members of Scotland Excel.

In cooperation with the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government Scotland Excel has been consulting with Scottish councils and other public bodies that are interested in a Security Operations Centre and managed detection and response service on the collaborative procurement of a framework.

CyberGov SOC

This solution will be a common platform to provide visibility of security events from multiple sources in both the cloud and on-premises environment of the contracting local authority.

The service will also provide a 24/7/365 monitoring of the platform and will take agreed upon delegated actions within agreed SLAs based on the categorisation of the security event. The solution should be based on M365 technologies that allow source log files to be held within the Local Authority.

It is hoped that the solution will offer a range of benefits for Scotland Excel members including:

• Offering a security solution available to all Scottish councils and potentially other Scottish public sector organisations.
• Help to simplify and accelerate the move to a standard system throughout the councils of Scotland.
• Offering financial economies and operational efficiencies.
• Consistent use of data and sources to help monitor and improve security services across all councils
• Develop a sector wide standard for security solutions.
• Increase the security skills of public sector staff and allow the development of a community of interest with a common platform and language.
• Share skills and learning among the community of interest who adopt the solution.