Invitation to Tender: Cyber Accelerator Programme - Design Partnerships (itt_2888)

Buyer
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Value
£1,200,000
Closes
27 November 2026
Where
London
Type
Open tender

In plain English

DSIT wants a supplier to run the Cyber Accelerator Programme: Design Partnerships for 2027-28. The programme pairs public sector organisations that have cyber problems with small and medium-sized cyber firms that can develop and test solutions, with the aim of helping public buyers adopt those solutions. The estimated value is around £1.2 million.

What the buyer wants

• Recruit and support the public sector challengers and the innovative cyber SMEs, facilitate the design partnerships between them, and provide programme governance and compliance support. • Deliver route-to-adoption activity, organise programme events, and produce programme reports and outputs. • Create a pattern library of repeatable approaches to help large organisations adopt cyber innovation in future.

Requirements

What could rule a small business out (our reading of the notice, written with AI): The notice sets out no explicit eligibility thresholds, but it asks for a single programme covering recruitment, governance, events, reporting and a pattern library over 2027-28 at around £1.2 million, which would most likely rule out a small business without substantial programme management capacity.

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