Award

Identity Attestation Verification

  • Ministry of Defence

UK5: Transparency notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-030702

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0544bc

Published 6 June 2025, 4:13pm



Scope

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.


Contract 1. Identity Attestation Verification

Supplier

Contract value

  • £9,166 excluding VAT
  • £11,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Earliest date the contract will be signed

18 June 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 19 June 2025 to 14 August 2025
  • 1 month, 26 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 72266000 - Software consultancy services

Participation

Particular suitability

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)


Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award

Special regime

Defence and security

Direct award justification

Single supplier - technical reasons

Cristical investigation which follows on from work completed by the supplier on a previous Contract.


Supplier

Hippo Digital Limited

  • Companies House: 09877239

1st Floor Aireside House

Leeds

LS1 4HT

United Kingdom

Region: UKE42 - Leeds

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): Yes

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1. Identity Attestation Verification


Contracting authority

Ministry of Defence

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PHVX-4316-ZVGZ

Westwells Road

Corsham

SN13 9GB

United Kingdom

Region: UKK15 - Wiltshire CC

Organisation type: Public authority - central government