Requirements

The Department of Education (DoE) has procured the services of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to develop the Preschool Outcomes Measure (POM) formative assessment tool. The tool is a deliverable under the Preschool Reform Agreement and will be trialled to a select group of preschools/kindergarten and day cares (services) in the form of a small-scale trial in October 2024 – March 2025 and will be trialled nationally from June – October 2025.

DoE is required to undertake an external cyber assessment to obtain an authority to operate. It is to be noted that the tool will be hosted externally to DoE’s platform, and DoE will not have access to the data obtained from the trial of the tool. Some jurisdictions may use their own tool and align.

The project requires an external IT Cyber Security assessor with demonstrated experience in the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and the Information Security Manual (ISM) to conduct a Cyber Security assessment of the Preschool Outcomes Measure (POM) formative assessment tool.

The assessment must be performed against the ISM ensuring that the hosting and information storage meets the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and the Australian Government standards including the PSPF and the Hosting Certification Framework (HCF).