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Guidance

Contractual process: placing contracts or releasing assets

Government organisations who are placing contracts or releasing assets must ensure that appropriate protective security controls are in place to protect assets.

Updates to this page

From:
Cabinet Office, National Security and Intelligence and Government Security Profession
Published:
1 July 2014
Last updated:
24 May 2018
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  1. The 'Contractual process' document has been updated to comply with the new GDPR law being enforced on 25 May.

  2. First published.

Documents

Contractual process, May 2018

PDF, 1.07 MB, 49 pages

Details

The guidance covers:

  • Initial discussions and checks
  • Security requirements
  • Security oversight and assurance of list X contractors
  • In-contract monitoring
  • Subcontracting

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