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MHCLG Penetration Testing

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · published 5 Nov 2026. 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.

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Contracts Finder release IDee8e48ab-c86f-42d8-9aa2-70d6164e0d01-919703
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-4017e094-0f66-454b-bca2-737a7b551a78
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/CkD254kv
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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Award value
£2,000,000
award field
Tender value
£2,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72254100
Systems testing services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This Contract has already been awarded and is being published for transparency services. Provision of specialist penetration testing and security assessment services for MHCLG (and its associated bodies) applications, cloud-hosted services, infrastructure and related digital systems, including IT Health Checks, vulnerability assessment and remediation reporting. This contract was awarded via G-Cloud 14 (Lot 3 - Cloud Support) and has an initial term of 36 months. There is provision for one 12-month extension period until 26 October 2030 at MHCLG's sole discretion.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release5 Nov 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published27 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published22 Oct 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published27 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published26 Oct 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 5 Nov 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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