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Official UK procurement notice

Identity Attestation Verification · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)

Direct awardDefence & securitySME suitable
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Awarded value£11,000published award · exc. VAT
Awarded 13 Aug 2025no call for competition
Awarded to Hippo Digital Limited

What is being bought

Published requirement description

5.1 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 published
Lot #1AwardedSME

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-0544bc Find 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
  1. Transparency notice published
    6 Jun 2025, 16:13 BST
    UK5
  2. Contract award notice published
    13 Aug 2025, 12:14 BST
    UK6
  3. Contract signature expected
    13 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £11,0001 award exc. VAT
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Hippo Digital LimitedIdentity Attestation and Verification13 Aug 2025 – 25 Aug 2025£11,00013 Aug 2025Awarded

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Ministry of Defence

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PHVX-4316-ZVGZ Westwells road, Corsham, South West, SN13 9NRContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Hippo DigitalAwarded supplierGB-COH: 09877239 1st Floor Aireside House, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS1 4HTContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender
  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender