Contract award · 31 Mar 2026

5879 - provision Machine-Readable DVS Register Build and Support

Dsit awarded “provision Machine-Readable DVS Register Build and Support” to Ernst & Young LLP for £3.06m on 31 Mar 2026.

IT servicesLondon

BuyerDsit
Value £3.06m

Competition with a shortlist

Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.

Key facts

Buyer
Dsit
Value
£3,057,000
Procedure
Call-off from a framework agreement
Sector
IT services · Information technology services (CPV 72222300)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date31 Mar 2026
  2. Published22 Apr 2026Published 22 days after the contract date

Description

1.1 DSIT is inviting bids from specialist suppliers and/or a consortium of suppliers to design, build and run the digital verification services (DVS) register, which is a register of digital verification service providers (DVSPs) who have been registered with the government following certification against the UK Digital Identities and Attributes Trust Framework (UK DIATF). This includes maintaining, improving and integrating an existing web service - the human-readable digital verification services register (HRR) - and building and running a new web service, the machine-readable register (MRR). The MRR is an extension of the HRR and will leverage PKI technology to enable programmatic checks against a DVSP's certified and registered status in a wide variety of use cases and scenarios in which digital identity or verification services are or will be used. 1.2 Contract Duration 1.2.1 The initial contracting period shall be two years. The Authority may extend the contract for up to three …

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