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002470 - Purchase of Cyber attack insurance and resilience response

Durham County Council

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: Durham County Council

Buyer Address: Corten House, Dunholme Close, Durham, UKC14, DH1 5WB, United Kingdom

Contact Email: corporate.procurement@durham.gov.uk

Status
complete
Procedure
direct
Value
248432.8 GBP
Published
29 Jul 2025, 08:40
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
28 Jul 2025, 23:00
Contract End
31 Jul 2026, 22:59
Category
n/a
CPV
66500000 - Insurance and pension services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
Marsh & Company Insurance Brokers Limited
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

The contract relates to the purchase of cyber attack insurance and also an element of response resilience provided via the insurance to assist DCC in obtaining forensic evidence prior to getting DCC back on line whilst observing the BCP's. This has been denoted as a risk (R0657 - If the Council suffered a successful cyberattack or IT security breach, then it may be unable to effectively deliver essential services) and as Cyber attacks have been experienced by other local authorities at great cost, is becoming more necessary. The insurance cover is for both public liability indemnity cover and also response resilience. Note - This is being recorded as a Direct Award as a mechanism for completing this award, however this has been sourced competitively, using Marsh as our contracted broker. Marsh advised that this market is extremely limited and contacted 6 providers for quotes. 4 providers declined to quote due to us being a public sector industry. A combined tiered approach was recommended by Marsh with Beazley and Resilience with £10million limit.

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Opportunity Context

Lots

Lot 1 Status: complete

Documents

Document Description: Not published

Awards

Award Title: Purchase of Cyber attack insurance and resilience response

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