PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Annual Penetration Testing for NAO

National Audit Office · published 4 Jul 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID1c715748-61b4-48a3-b587-49ce510a0158-853008
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-23514799-ba8e-4ea6-be50-083add6bf819
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sBN45ywB
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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Award value
£80,856
award field
Tender value
£88,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72000000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

National Audit Office (NAO) has awarded a contract to the supplier for the provision of independent assurance around the effectiveness and robustness of its technical security controls, which will include, security testing based on the following models 1) Annual Penetration Testing 2) Annual Cyber Essentials Plus Assessment and 3) Annual CHECK IT Health Check. The Contract has been called off from the G-Cloud 13 Framework. The Contract Value in this Notice include VAT. The initial contract period is 1 year with the option to extend by 2 further periods of 1 year (1+1+1). The contract has been extended until July 2026 and the maximum estimated contract value is £88,000 inclusive of VAT.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release4 Jul 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published17 Jul 2023
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published30 Jul 2023
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Jul 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 4 Jul 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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