Design & Build: Industrial Control System (ICS) Network

Wales & West Utilities (WWU) is embarking upon a significant programme of work to rearchitect its industrial control system (ICS). WWU is seeking to partner with an organisation who can work with us on this endeavour and is interested in hearing from companies with expertise in architecting secure operational technology (OT) environments in cloud instances. This is a design and build tender, and the successful supplier will work with us on all aspects and phases of this programme, from discovery and design, through to proof of concept and testing and production deployment. You will be required to -

• Design, document and deploy new cloud networks
• Consult, advise and design OT architecture and governance processes
• Design a layered network at Purdue layers 3 and 3.5
• Align the architecture closely with accepted best-practice ICS reference architecture
• Produce high quality architectural design documentation, to include diagrams produced in a recognised diagramming language such as UML. In order to be considered for this contract, you must meet the following requirements -
• You must be NCSC CAF assured
• You must have previous experience in designing OT/ICS architectures and the Purdue reference architecture. • You must have prior experience of designing in Cloud environments
• Companies with this experience of undertaking similar projects in the CNI sector are of particular interest. WWU are holding a supplier engagement call on Tuesday 4th April at 9am where our Cyber team will provide greater detail on this opportunity. If you are considering whether this is an opportunity you'd like to tender for, please email [email protected] who can invite you to the session so that you can find out more. WWU would like to invite expressions of interest (EOI) based on the information specified and for interested suppliers to submit their EOI to [email protected]