Official UK procurement notice
Generic Identity Verification Service (GIDV) 2025/26
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrs 3 moends 31 Mar 2029 · starts 1 Jan 2027
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of service to check passport chips and facially match immigration customers / visa applicants.
CPV: IT software development services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Jun 2025, 13:48 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Jun 2025, 15:03 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-032000- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0543a1Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Jun 2025 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published5 Jun 2025, 13:48 BST
- Latest notice published12 Jun 2025, 15:03 BST
- Tender notice expected331 days ago30 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 64 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Jun 2025- Pipeline notice published5 Jun 2025, 13:48 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published11 Jun 2025, 14:01 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published12 Jun 2025, 15:03 BSTUK1
Published amendments (2)
Estimated dates updated to align with current planning, they remain indicative and may be subject to change.
Estimated dates updated to align with current planning, they remain indicative and may be subject to change.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender