Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department For Education · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Hive IT
- Value
- £2,820,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- IT services · System and support services (CPV 72250000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 064920-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Jun 2026
- Published9 Jul 2026Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
Explore education statistics (EES) is a digital service used by analysts within the Department for Education (DfE) to create and publish official and national statistics releases. The service is in public beta and is relied on by users, with the department having regulatory requirements for keeping its statistical service publicly available. We require that the service is continually worked on, with bugs and issues addressed as they are raised and a regular flow of small feature optimisations to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the users including accessibility standards. Maintenance and minor enhancement of the service throughout the duration of the contract whilst enhancement work is taking place through other Statements of Work. We expect this to include monitoring and optimisation of the service as well as bug fixing.
About the supplier
Hive IT: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08852342).