Official UK procurement notice
Identity Attestation Verification · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description5.1 The Supplier will come under the overall direction of the Digital Identity Programme Delivery Lead for Foundations and Data and they will report to the appointed Delivery Manager who will oversee delivery of the contracted deliverables.
5.2 The Supplier will carry out a detailed assessment of the discovery of the existing processes of user identity validation/verification and entitlement attestation processes and procedures and define the next steps that presents technical solution options for circa 20k SECRET users (Who can be based overseas), which is also scalable to other users like OFFCIAL in the future.
5.3 The Supplier will carry out detailed business analysis and design of user identity validation/verification and entitlement attestation processes and procedures and outline the required embedding of such process that supports each of the defined options that is presented to the Digital Identity for Defence Programme.
5.4 The end-to-end processes and procedures that are in scope for handling and processing the authority’s identity information include but not limited to:
- Creating new identities (including verification / provenance / attestation)
- Managing existing identities (whole life management including data updates)
- Retiring old identities (and reinstating where needed)
- Processes for working with identities internally
- Processes for working with identities to/from business and operational partners
- processes for reviewing / auditing / reporting on identity activity and data changes
5.5 These processes will have (usually minor) variations depending on the identity:
- Military (current, reservists, cadets and veterans)
- Civilians in the Military (e.g. Royal Fleet Auxiliary)
- Guests from other warfighting partners who use MOD IT services
- Departmental Civil Servants
- Non-MOD employees (Contractors)
- Civil servants and others from other government departments (OGDs) who use MOD IT services (e.g. MOD police)
- Departmental partners, which range from supplier-selected teams from major supplier organisations to individually contracted staff
- Deployed users
- Other defence-related staff who use MOD IT services
5.6 The processes under development need to operate at scale, with a (nominal) 250k identities that we would consider to be the active core defence community, and of the order of 1000 changes (joiners/movers/leavers) a week.
5.7 Each defined option must be analysed holistically to ensure (if accepted/approved) can be implemented with immediate effect.
UK06 update - This notice has been completed retrospectivley and thereffore in order to publihs the dates in the Contract section are not accurate. please see the following accurate dates for this Contract:
Award date - 30/06/2025
Start date - 01/07/2025
End date - 25/08/2025
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Defence & security
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Jun 2025, 16:13 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Aug 2025, 12:14 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-048373- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0544bcFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
Cristical investigation which follows on from work completed by the supplier on a previous Contract.
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Jun 2025- Transparency notice published6 Jun 2025, 16:13 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published13 Aug 2025, 12:14 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected13 Aug 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hippo Digital LimitedIdentity Attestation and Verification13 Aug 2025 – 25 Aug 2025 | £11,000 | 13 Aug 2025 | Awarded |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Hippo DigitalAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender