The Monday Awards, Issue 5
Week to 30 October 2026
Quorum Cyber wins University of Glasgow SOC contract, £2.6M
Awards this week
SOC, detection and response
- Quorum Cyber won work from University of Glasgow, £2.6M over 3 years.
Values as published in the notice.
Plus a shared ceiling of up to £14M from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for technical cyber security support to find and fix vulnerabilities, across at least 2 suppliers (BAE Systems Applied Intelligence and 3B Data Security). Not counted above.
We list cyber service awards only. This week we also recorded 17 other awards with cyber work: 14 products and licences, 2 cyber staffing, 1 inside a bigger IT contract. They are on TenderCyber. This week's counts use Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland.
41 of the 103 cyber contracts awarded in Q3 2026 that state the winner's size went to SMEs, 40%. The full release is free on tendercyber.com/research/q3-2026.
The week in numbers
- Products and licences this week are worth £4.9M.
- 12 of the 18 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 12 open tenders and frameworks. 4 tenders are still open, one of them closing this week; 3 have no published closing date; 4 are frameworks you can join any time; 1 has closed.
One of them in full: Penetration Testing. Buyer: Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament. Type of work: Penetration testing. Value: £80K. Closes 24 November 2026.
It also listed 8 contracts ending by April, with the current supplier and end date.
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: 36 awards in the last four weeks, worth £8.6M, against 22 in the same weeks last year.
- Penetration testing: 10 awards, against 2 in the same weeks last year
- SOC, detection and response: 9 awards, against 4 in the same weeks last year
- Governance, risk and audit: 7 awards, against 5 in the same weeks last year
- Network security: 6 awards, against 5 in the same weeks last year
- Backup, recovery and resilience: 4 awards, against 2 in the same weeks last year
- Identity and access: 3 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Training and awareness: 2 awards, against 2 in the same weeks last year
- Cyber work, type not named: 2 awards, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Endpoint protection: 2 awards, against 0 in the same weeks last year
- Digital forensics: 1 award, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- Cyber staffing and interim roles: 1 award, against 1 in the same weeks last year
- OT, ICS and IoT security: 1 award, against 0 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.
Want a taster for your patch? Email [email protected] with your type of work and the buyers you sell to, councils, NHS, police, central government, or a region, and we will send you three contracts in it that end in the next six months.
The Friday Brief: open cyber tenders, frameworks open to join, and contracts ending soon with the current supplier. Founding price £49 a month for your first 12 months, then £79. Founding applications close on Friday 15 January 2027.
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.