Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- DHSC
- Supplier
- Hippo Digital Limited
- Value
- £1,363,405.24
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- IT services · IT software development services (CPV 72212517)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Apr 2026
- Published30 Apr 2026Published 9 days after the contract date
Description
DHSC is looking for a delivery partner for a Beta phase of a new Abortion Notification Service (ANS). The core aim is to build, test, and refine a new ANS service that will: (1) Enable registered medical practitioners to securely and efficiently submit HSA4s to DHSC. (2) Enable DHSC to monitor compliance if the Abortion Act 1967. (3) Support robust monitoring and continual improvement of abortion care services. (4) Enable the publication of anonymised data to inform public health policy and support research. The Beta phase will involve build, test, and improvement to a new service through private and public beta. The service must support submissions via 3 channels (webform, API, and paper), ensure secure data handling, and meet GDS standards. The service currently has around 1500 total users (external and internal) and processes around 250,000 notifications per year. The proposed solution includes the following service components: (1) Web Front-end: used by abortion care providers to …
About the supplier
Hippo Digital Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09877239).