Award

002470 - Purchase of Cyber attack insurance and resilience response

  • Durham County Council

UK5: Transparency notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-043696

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0567a2

Published 29 July 2025, 9:40am



Scope

Reference

OPEN20251287

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.


Contract 1. Purchase of Cyber attack insurance and resilience response

Supplier

Contract value

  • £248,432.80 excluding VAT
  • £248,432.80 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Earliest date the contract will be signed

29 July 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 29 July 2025 to 31 July 2026
  • 1 year, 3 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 66500000 - Insurance and pension services

Contract locations

  • UKC14 - Durham CC

Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award

Direct award justification

Additional or repeat goods, services or works - further goods, services or works following a competitive procedure

This is being recorded as a Direct Award as a mechanism for completing this notice, 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.


Supplier

Marsh & Company Insurance Brokers Limited

  • Companies House: 01507274

Lancelot House, 1-3 Upper King Street

Leicester

LE1 6XF

United Kingdom

Region: UKF21 - Leicester

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1. Purchase of Cyber attack insurance and resilience response


Contracting authority

Durham County Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PMPB-8772-VYWM

Corten House, Dunholme Close

Durham

DH1 5WB

United Kingdom

Region: UKC14 - Durham CC

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government