Threat Detection Tenders and Contracts

Threat detection covers cyber security tooling and services that catch and respond to intrusions: endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), managed detection and response (MDR), malware detection, breach detection, SIEM platforms and the SOC contracts built around them. Some notices are single software licence renewals; others are multi-year managed services covering monitoring, triage and incident response.

Stotles brings together threat detection tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Threat detection is mostly called off from G-Cloud and technology frameworks, and Welsh councils share a national managed SOC framework.

Managed detection and security operations centre providers are usually expected to hold Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO 27001, and may need security-cleared staff for government work. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar services at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Threat detection buying is mostly call-offs from CCS and G-Cloud frameworks and direct awards, usually as multi-year managed service contracts that are renewed or re-tendered. Councils, universities and colleges, housing associations, NHS bodies, transport operators and central government departments are among the buyers.

Most threat detection notices are already awarded, with a further slice at pre-tender or early market engagement and only a few open for bids at any one time. Most buyers already run an EDR, MDR or SOC service and are renewing or re-competing it rather than building one from nothing, so watch expiry dates on existing contracts as much as new notices.

EDR (endpoint detection and response) watches laptops and servers for suspicious activity. XDR (extended detection and response) pulls that together with network, email and cloud signals into one view. MDR (managed detection and response) is the service wrapper: a third party runs the monitoring and responds on the buyer's behalf, day and night. Public sector notices increasingly ask for MDR as a single service rather than the underlying tooling bought separately.

Read digital and technology strategies, licence and contract renewal dates, architecture reviews and early market engagement notices, which show threat detection work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Threat detection notices carry 48730000 (Security software package) and 48732000 (Data security software package).