SIA 920 - PSN Connectivity Gateway Service

2.1 The SIA are currently inviting established providers to provide a secure virtual PSN gateway service for the SIA. This will be required for an SIA user community of up to 400 colleagues, not anticipated to exceed 500 during the lifetime of the contract. The scope of this contract requires the supplier to provide secure, scalable and geo redundant virtual networking services compliant to the PSN Code of Connection that will permit the SIA to continue to consume a number of PSN services. The scope for this specification covers a number of technology products and services such as but not limited to: • Secure site to site VPN connectivity between the supplier service and SIA operated and managed Azure infrastructure. • Data in transit TLS 1.2 or higher. • UK shored data centres. • Secure, scalable and geo redundant PSN network connectivity. • PSN Code of Connection accredited service provider. • Secure by design principles. Additional requirements of this contract include; Associated Services, including but not limited to: • Offer access to other networks beyond PSN such as LECN