National Grid ESO - Cyber Incident Response and Digital Forensics

National Grid Electricity System Operator (NGESO) moves electricity around systems to keep homes and businesses supplied with the energy they need 24/7. NGESO is a separate legal entity to National Grid Plc.

NGESO has a regulatory commitment to move all IT systems and shared services away from National Grid Plc and therefore NGESO requires a partner to provide on-demand Incident Response and Digital Forensics services aligned with NGESOs own incident management processes.

Currently, National Grid Plc provide these group-level services in-house and will continue to run these services whilst NGESO and National Grid Plc's IT environments are being separated. However, once any assets are transitioned, or when new assets are productionised into the new NGESO environments, the responsibility for Incident Response and Digital Forensics will transfer to NGESO, hence requirement for a 3rd party service to protect the business and systems.

This Non-Call for Completion Request for Information Only.

RFI CONTENT

This is not a formal tender process and is not being undertaken in accordance with the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016.

Please ensure responses to all questions and any supporting documentation is clearly referenced to the question they are answering.

NGSO will not be shortlisting suppliers based on their submissions and any future sourcing activities will be subject to a new event.

The RFI seeks for suppliers to provide answers to the points and questions detailed in the, II.2.14) Additional information, section of this document.

Please provide your response to each question in a separate Word document clearly stating the question number that your response relates to. If providing any supporting information in separate documents as appropriate, state the question reference number in the file name using the following naming convention:

ESO_CIR&DF_RFI_SUPPLIER NAME