Attachment A Questionnaire.pdf
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- Attached to
- STUDENT TRANSPORTATION ASSESSMENT AND RE
- Solicitation number
- 5400030281
- Issued by
- Richland County, South Carolina
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This is a Service Provider Security Assessment Questionnaire for use by the South Carolina Department of Education and Workforce in evaluating proposals for the Student Transportation Assessment and Redesign contract opportunity. The questionnaire requires prospective contractors to provide comprehensive documentation of their security policies, procedures, and practices related to the handling of government information. Responses are due by January 7, 2027, in conjunction with proposal submissions for the student transportation assessment project. The questionnaire must be completed and signed by an authorized representative of the responding contractor and should be cross-referenced with the "Service Provider Security Assessment Questionnaire - Required" and "Service Provider Security Representation" clauses contained in the solicitation documents.
The questionnaire addresses eleven core security assessment areas, including access control policies, disaster recovery and business continuity plans, employee and contractor vetting procedures, sub-contractor security management, third-party security certifications (such as ISO/IEC 27001 or AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 reports), physical security of data centers, encryption protocols for data at rest and in transit, breach prevention safeguards, security breach detection and audit logging practices, post-contract data management and destruction procedures, and incident response policies. Contractors must identify all third parties that will have access to or host government information and provide current and future compliance certifications that will remain in place for the contract duration. The questionnaire serves as a critical evaluation tool to assess the contractor's capability to maintain adequate confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems used to process, store, transmit, and access government information throughout the contract term.
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SERVICE PROVIDER SECURITY ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
Instructions: (1) Attach additional pages or documents as appropriate and make sure answers cross reference to the questions below. (2) As used in this Questionnaire, the phrase “government information” shall have the meaning defined in the clause titled “Information Security.” (3) This Questionnaire must be read in conjunction with both of the following two clauses (a) Service Provider Security Assessment Questionnaire – Required, and (b) Service Provider Security Representation.
1. Describe your policies and procedures that ensure access to government information is limited to only those of your employees and contractors who require access to perform your proposed services.
2. Describe your disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
3. What safeguards and practices do you have in place to vet your employees and contractors who will have access to government information?
4. Describe and explain your security policies and procedures as they relate to your use of your contractors and next-tier sub -contractors.
5. List any reports or certifications that you have from properly accredited third-parties that demonstrate that adequate security controls and assurance requirements are in place to adequately provide for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information systems used to process, store, transmit, and access all government information. (For example, an ISO/IEC 27001 compliance certificate, an AICPA SOC 2 (Type 2) report, or perhaps an AICPA SOC 3 report (i.e., a SysTrust or WebTrust seal)). For each certification, describe the scope of the assessment performed. Will these reports / certifications remain in place for the duration of the contract? Will you provide the state with most recent and future versions of the applicable compliance certificate / audit report?
6. Describe the policies, procedures and practices you have in place to provide for the physical security of your data centers and other sites where government information will be hosted, accessed or maintained.
7. Will government information be encrypted at rest? Will government information be encrypted when transmitted? Will government information be encrypted during data backups, and on backup media? Please elaborate.
8. Describe safeguards that are in place to prevent unauthorized use, reuse, distribution, transmission, manipulation, copying, modification, access or disclosure of government information.
9. What controls are in place to detect security breaches? What system and network activity do you log? How long do you maintain these audit logs?
10. How will government information be managed after contract termination? Will government information provided to the Contractor be deleted or destroyed? When will this occur?
11. Describe your incident response policies and practices.
12. Identify any third party which will host or have access to government information.
Offeror’s response to this questionnaire includes any other information submitted with its offer regarding information or data security.
SIGNATURE OF PERSON AUTHORIZED TO REPRESENT THE ACCURACY OF THIS INFORMATION ON BEHALF
OF CONTRACTOR:
By: ____________________________________ (authorized signature)
Its: ____________________________________ (printed name of person signing above)
(title of person signing above)
Date: ____________________________________
SPSAQ (JAN 2015) [09-9025-1]
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