The Monday Awards, Issue 4
Week to 23 October 2026
£97M of cyber contracts awarded in Q3 2026
From July to September, UK public sector buyers awarded 106 cyber security service contracts; product and licence purchases are not counted. The 94 with a published value come to £97.4M, and two of them make £55.9M of it.
The Q3 2026 release
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government awarded a contract worth up to £30M and the Ministry of Justice one worth up to £25.9M, each the top of the range the notice gives. The other 92 valued awards average £451K. The ten buyers that spent the most, and the value by type of work, are free on tendercyber.com/research/q3-2026. The Friday Brief shows when each of those contracts ends.
The week in numbers
- 6 cyber service contracts awarded this week, worth £530K, plus 8 hardware and software purchases worth £2.9M
- 13 of the 14 award notices this week, service contracts and purchases together, say whether the winner is an SME; 4 went to SMEs.
What subscribers saw last Friday
Last Friday's Brief listed 9 open tenders and frameworks. 3 tenders are still open, one of them closing this week; 2 have no published closing date; 4 are frameworks you can join any time.
One of them in full: Hybrid Security Operations Centre (SOC). Buyer: British Film Institute. Type of work: SOC, detection and response. Value: £150K. Closes 2 November 2026.
Awards this week
SOC, detection and response
- Saepio Solutions Limited won work from First Choice Homes Oldham, £80.8K inc VAT.
Penetration testing
- Prism Infosec Ltd won work from Met Office, £160K.
- Prism Infosec Ltd won work from Money and Pensions Service, £120K.
- Sapphire won work from South Tyneside Council, £32K.
Cyber staffing and interim roles
- GingerNut won work from Hampshire County Council, £18K over 21 months.
Cyber work, type not named
- I.F.F Research Limited won work from Department for Transport, £133K.
8 hardware and software purchases this week are on the site.
The 6 service contracts, and the 8 purchases under the switch, are on tendercyber.com/browse.
Contract of the week
Prism Infosec Ltd won a £120K contract from Money and Pensions Service. Type of work: Penetration testing.
- Bids received: 11
- Recorded as an SME: No
- Scored on price only
What happens next: Subscribers can see when contracts like this end, and when the buyer is likely to go back to market.
Read the contract on TenderCyber
Contracts in the last four weeks
On Find a Tender and Public Contracts Scotland, the two sources with a full year of history.
All cyber work: 32 awards in the last four weeks, worth £5.4M, against 19 in the same weeks last year.
- Penetration testing: 11 awards, against 3 in the same weeks last year
- Network security: 8 awards, against 5 in the same weeks last year
- Governance, risk and audit: 7 awards, against 5 in the same weeks last year
- SOC, detection and response: 7 awards, against 3 in the same weeks last year
- Backup, recovery and resilience: 3 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Training and awareness: 2 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Identity and access: 2 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Endpoint protection: 2 awards, against 0 in the same weeks last year
- OT, ICS and IoT security: 1 award, against 0 in the same weeks last year
- Digital forensics: 0 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Cyber staffing and interim roles: 0 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Cyber work, type not named: 0 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
A contract with two types of work counts under each, so the types add up to more than the total.
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Sources: Find a Tender Service, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Year-on-year comparisons use Find a Tender and Scotland only. How we decide what counts as cyber: tendercyber.com/how.