PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR: PRIVACY ENHANCING TECHNOLOGIES: ADDRESSING THE USER CONFIDENCE GAP: CERTIFICATIONS, ASSURANCE SCHEMES AND RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLKITS

Concepts

• project management
• royal society
• consultancy services
• privacy enhancing technologies
• digital technologies
• provision of services
• limits of privacy enhancing technologies
• privacy
• technologies
• user confidence gap

Location

Description

The Royal Society's Data Programme is developing policy and promoting debate that helps the UK safely and rapidly realise the growing benefits of data and digital technologies. In 2019, the Royal Society launched the report Protecting privacy in practice: The current use, development and limits of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in data analysis. One of our activities following from this report is an exploration of the status and role of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs): technologies or conceptual approaches that allow the derivation of useful insights from data without requiring full data access. Some examples include homomorphic encryption, zero knowledge proofs, differential privacy and secure multi-party computation. The Royal Society has launched a refresher project to update the 2019 report, which will be published in late 2021. This shall include an updated review of PETs applications, legal / regulatory concerns and an illustrative set of use cases. This commissioned review is a foundational piece of our evidence gathering for this project; it will inform our understanding of the regulatory landscape and possible futures with regard to PETs. The Society seek to engage a Supplier to provide a review in three parts: 1. a review of certification and assurance of PETs; 2. an overview of certification and assurance practices in cybersecurity since 2000; and 3. a synthesis discussion that draws from both reviews to identify transferrable lessons from the recent history of cybersecurity assurance that may (or may not) apply to PETs. Please see Attachment 1 - The Brief for more details.

CPV Codes

• 72224000 - Project management consultancy services
• 73000000 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.
• Contract is suitable for VCOs.

Other Information

Please read the brief and if you choose to submit a quote, please complete, and email the registration form at Attachment 5 ASAP Attachment 1 - The Brief Attachment 1 - RFQ 614 - User confidence - Certification and Assurance.docx Attachment 2 - Services Charges Attachment 2 - Service Charges for Ref 614.xlsx Attachment 3 - Terms and Conditions Attachment 3 - RFQ 614 - Terms and Conditions_.docx Attachment 4 - Supplier Declaration Attachment 4 - Ref 614 - RFQ Supplier Declaration Form.docx Attachment 5 - Supplier Registration Form Attachment 5 - Supplier Registration Form RFQ 614.docx