Herefordshire Council consume various services via the Public Services Network (PSN). In order to hold a PSN certificate, mandatory requirements must be met to include testing and meeting technical requirements of the Herefordshire Community Network.

This tender seeks to procure a supplier to provide the technical testing services in line with the PSN IT Health Check, and to test web applications against the OWASP to 10 web vulnerabilities.

The tender also considers costs for other technical testing services such as DSPT, Cyber Essentials Plus, but these may or may not be consumed. A closed procurement process was undertaken in accordance with Herefordshire Councils Contract Procedure Rules where 3 (three) suppliers were invited to participate with this tender process. All 3 (three) suppliers submitted a bid by the tender close date.

The bids were evaluated in accordance with the rules as stipulated within the tender document. This evaluation consisted of a mandatory pass/fail section and 100% price.

A summary of the weighted evaluated scores along with the ranking is as follows:

Rank Name Weighted Score
1 Sapphire 100%
2 Supplier A 96.26%
3 Supplier B 86.84%

Sapphire provided the most economically advantageous tender and are therefore recommended for award.