Maritime CT Ports of Reception Exercise Contract Award Notice

The DfT works with its agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps the UK's businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. The DfT plans and invests in transport infrastructure.

Transport Security, Resilience and Response (TSRR) within DfT, leads on national security matters, ranging from counter terrorism and cyber security to planning for and responding to natural hazards or civil contingencies. We deliver expertise to support security and resilience policy teams whilst also providing the department's 24/7 response for all security or civil contingency incidents. The team works with security and intelligence partners from across government to mitigate risk to the UK's transport sector

This contract is awarded to maintain a safe and secure transport infrastructure, consideration is given to a variety of security scenarios to support the understanding of how scenarios may develop, including responses and reactions. Understanding scenarios and responses helps the DfT inform planning and use of mitigations to best effect. To achieve this, exercises are used to help inform teams in their analyses.