Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-10-26
Buyer: The Manchester Airport Group Plc
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 48730000: Security software package | 72261000: Software support services | 72263000: Software implementation services
Estimated value: 1200000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-11-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Manchester Airport, Stansted Airport, East Midlands Airport, Bournemouth Airport and MAG US Operations.
Manchester Airport Group PLC (MAG) wishes to commence a procurement process to award a contract for the provision of a Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool across its Group portfolio including UK airports at Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth as well as its US operations. The successful supplier will work collaboratively with MAG in order to implement the SIEM tool and provide ongoing SOC services to strengthen MAG's Information Security resilience.
The SIEM tool is required to be a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) packaged software product that is readily available to the marketplace. It is proposed that MAG will own the license for the SIEM tool directly.
To support the SIEM tool there is also a requirement for an outsourced security operations centre (SOC). The scope of the SOC service offering will include the initial implementation of the tool as well as the ongoing service function. The high level scope of implementation will cover the following areas:
— Integration of first phase of MAG legacy system reporting and alerts into SIEM tool (including testing with any required third parties),
Once the SIEM tool has been implemented the successful supplier will be required to deliver ongoing SOC services in the following areas:
— MAG internal team access to the raw log data of SIEM tool and have the ability to generate MAG only view reports from the log data.
Manchester Airport Group PLC (MAG) wishes to commence a procurement process to award a contract for the provision of a Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool across its Group portfolio including UK airports at Manchester, Stansted, East Midlands and Bournemouth as well as its US operations.
The initial contract term will be 3 years, with options to extend by up to a maximum of 4 years, in any number of separate extensions.
MAG reserves the right to request deposits, guarantees (performance and/or financial), parent guarantees or other forms of security.
Where the Bidder is a consortium, each Member of the Bidder may be required to contract on any basis which MAG considers appropriate in its discretion having regard to the nature, size and complexity of the services which basis may be discussed during the Negotiated Procedure or will be set out in the Procurement Documentation. MAG may, at its absolute discretion and in particular, require the Bidder to contract:
— with a particular single Member of the Bidder as the prime Supplier (with the other Members providing collateral warranties and/or guarantees);
— as an incorporated or unincorporated special purpose vehicle (with guarantees from the other Members of the Bidder), and in any event;
MAG has set out such information within its Pre-Qualification Documents available on the e-tendering system which can be accessed by emailing the contact point identified at I.1).
Organisations wishing to participate will need to demonstrate that they have an annual turnover in excess of 1 000 000 GBP (one million pounds sterling) in each of the organisation's last 3 (three) financial years. Please refer to the Pre-Qualification Documents which set out the detailed selection criteria.