Managed Cyber Security Operations Centre and Security Information & Event Management

This Non-Call for Completion - RFI is the exclusive property of National Grid ESO it may not be copied, transmitted or disclosed by any means without the expressed written consent of National Grid ESO. By accepting a copy hereof, the recipient agrees to be bound by these conditions and to use these documents solely for responding to National Grid's ESO Non-Call for Competition RFI.

RFI CONTENT

This is not a formal tender process and is not being undertaken in accordance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016.

Please ensure responses to all questions and any supporting documentation is clearly referenced to the question they are answering.

National Grid ESO will not be shortlisting suppliers based on their submissions and any future sourcing activities will be subject to a new event.

The RFi seeks suppliers to provide answers to the points and questions detailed in section 3 of this document.

Please provide your response to each question in a separate Word document clearly stating the question number that your response relates to. If providing any supporting information in separate documents as appropriate, state the question reference number in the file name using the following naming convention:

document name - supplier reference - question number - date

Your company is invited to respond to this Request for Information ("RFI") for

• the provision of an interim managed Cyber Security Operations Centre ("CSOC")

• the provision of a strategic Security Information and Events Management system ("SIEM"), and

• the provision of support to enable ESO to build and transition to an enduring in-house security operations centre.

At a high level, the partners services should provide tools and capabilities that exceed the incumbents, complementing the platforms noted, technology, people, and processes.

This notice has been edited by Tenderlake on 10-Jun-2023.