Defence supply-chain SME · ~30 employees
Cyber Essentials issued in working hours to meet a fixed MOD tender deadline.
A UK defence supplier was 14 days from a tender deadline that named Cyber Essentials as a required attestation. Their existing assessor had quoted a 5-10 working-day turnaround. Fig issued the certificate within 6 working hours of a compliant submission, with no escalation fee.
CE turnaround
6 working hours
Time to tender deadline
13 working days
Outcome
Submitted on time
Compliant submission to issued certificate inside the same working day.