# Provision of Physical Security Intrusion Testing Services

> Pre-procurement notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Office for National Statistics](/buyers/office-for-national-statistics/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £12,000
- Published: 19 July 2018
- Planned start: 24 September 2018
- Planned end: 31 December 2021
- Stage: pre_procurement
- Notice ID: a208598b-3fba-40ec-b7e4-77c11c92fc99-229927
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-91a19254-f83d-4142-9a7e-97320fc7800c

## Description

The Office for National Statistics \(ONS\) is responsible for four sites in the United Kingdom\. As part of the Authority's quality assurance programme, it has a need to engage a supplier to conduct physical intrusion testing services for its sites and buildings\. The successful supplier will be required to provide the following aspects of this testing: • Participate in an annual pre-test planning meeting at an ONS Site\. • Attempt to gain access to each site, building and internal spaces using non-destructive measures\. • Attention paid to all access and egress points including loading/delivery areas\. • Access attempts are to include use of counterfeit ID passes, "stolen" ID Passes \(provided by ONS\) and without passes\. • Attempting to gain access to any computer frame, communications or server room within the buildings using non-destructive measures\. • Attempting to wander the internal office spaces and corridors without being challenged\. • Identifying and recording insecure and unattended computers/laptops\. • Identifying and recording insecure combination cabinets, safes and cupboards\. • Identifying, where possible persons who enable access through security gates, barriers and doors without challenge\. • Collect evidence, where appropriate to support identified vulnerabilities • Produce a report summarising their activity, detailing individual identified weaknesses and making recommendations to remediate those weaknesses\. • Present a testing debrief and summary of the report to ONS Chief Security Officer Periodicity: Annually over the period of the contract\. Pre-Test Co-ordination: The eventual supplier will be required to arrange each test in advance through the Physical Security Manager\. We anticipate that the contract will run for a period of 3 years from 24/09/2018 - 31/12/2021\. The provisional procurement timetable is as follows but please note that this may be subject to change: • Publish tender: 30th July • Bidder site visits Newport and London: 13th and 14th August • Bidder site visits Titchfield and Christchurch: 22nd or 23rd August \(both sites in one day\) • Tender deadline: 7th September • Tender evaluation: 10th - 14th September • Award contract: w/c 17th September The tender will be published via ONS' e-tendering portal, In-Tend\. Only responses received via In-Tend will be accepted\. If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to bid, please register on In-Tend via the link below: https://in-tendhost\.co\.uk/ons/aspx/Home Please inform Natalie Rogers once you have registered\. We will then attach your organisation to the Project so that you are automatically notified when the tender is published\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a208598b-3fba-40ec-b7e4-77c11c92fc99-229927)