SONI095 Managed Service - Security Operations Centre

Buyer
SONI Ltd
Value
£17,600,000
Closes
30 November 2026
Where
Belfast
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

SONI Ltd, the company that runs Northern Ireland's electricity grid operator role, wants to hire one supplier to run a managed Security Operations Centre (SOC), a team that monitors and responds to cyber threats across its systems. The supplier will work inside SONI's own security tools and monitoring platform rather than bringing their own. This is a £17.6 million contract, and this notice is the first stage, where interested firms are screened before up to three are invited to tender.

What the buyer wants

• Complete the pre-qualification questionnaire (PSQ) to show you meet the buyer's requirements, so you can be considered for the shortlist of up to three • If shortlisted, deliver a full tender response covering service design, architecture, tooling, integration, governance and performance, under NDA • Run the SOC service for the full contract term within SONI's own owned tooling and SIEM (security information and event management) platform

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

A £17.6 million single-supplier managed SOC contract with a three-firm shortlist would most likely rule out small businesses that lack a proven track record of running large-scale security operations services and the capacity to deliver a contract of this size and complexity.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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