Incident Response and Digital Forensic Services
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SUMMARY
KEY REQUIREMENTS
CONTRACT DURATION
TIMELINE
Issue Date: August 24th, 2026
Questions Deadline: September 9th, 2026
Response Deadline: September 22nd, 2026
QUESTION DEADLINE
CONTACTS
Primary procurement contact — name, title, email, and phone
Additional decision-makers and their departments
Issuing Agency
The University Of Iowa
DESCRIPTION
A government authority in Iowa seeks a vendor to provide rapid incident response and digital forensic services for critical- and high-severity cybersecurity incidents affecting university information systems, research environments, healthcare-related systems, cloud services, operational technology, and third-party hosted services. The selected provider will support emerging threat investigations, ransomware events, compromised business email incidents, data breaches, advanced threat activity, identity and email attacks, cloud security incidents, and critical infrastructure incidents.
Services will include initial intake and severity assessment, incident command establishment, evidence preservation guidance, response strategy development, stakeholder identification, threat containment recommendations, isolation strategy guidance, compromised-system identification, credential containment support, and adversary activity disruption. Forensic activities may include host acquisition, memory, malware and log analysis, cloud forensic review, email investigation, network traffic analysis, threat actor timeline development, persistence mechanism identification, and root cause analysis.
The vendor will also support executive leadership through strategic incident management and communications and provide post-incident recommendations to strengthen cybersecurity resilience. Required forensic capabilities include endpoint, cloud, email, and mobile device forensics. Questions must be submitted by September 9, 2026, and proposals are due September 22, 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
- When is the submission deadline?
- Submissions are due September 22, 2026. Questions must be submitted by September 9, 2026.
- Who issued this RFP?
- It was issued by The University Of Iowa. The work is located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
- Who is a good fit for this opportunity?
- Cybersecurity incident response and digital forensics firm
- Experience handling ransomware, data breaches, advanced threats, and identity attacks
- Expertise in endpoint, cloud, email, mobile, network, and malware forensics
- Capability to provide rapid response for critical and high-severity incidents
- Experience supporting universities, healthcare environments, research systems, operational technology, or government agencies
- Strong executive incident communications and post-incident remediation capabilities
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