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Implementing and Testing a Single Unique Identifier for Children within school MIS – Alpha

The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking to engage with the market in advance of a planned procurement for the Alpha phase of the Single Unique Identifier (SUI) programme. The SUI programme aims to improve the identification of children across safeguarding services by enabling the use of NHS Numbers as a Single Unique Identifier. The Alpha phase will test the integration of school Management Information System (MIS) platforms with the DfE-hosted Get an Identifier service, enabling authorised access to NHS numb...

Buyer

Department for Education

Value

£300,000

Published

23 Oct 2026

Closes

9 Nov 2026

Procurement details

Source

Find a Tender

Region

United Kingdom

Procurement method

Not provided

Category

Services

Contract starts

4 Jan 2027

Contract ends

31 Mar 2027

CPV classifications

72262000

Software development services

72263000

Software implementation services

72265000

Software configuration services

72266000

Software consultancy services

Lots

Lot 1 Implementing and Testing a Single Unique Identifier for Children within school MIS – Alpha

Value not provided

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

23 Oct 2026

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

Market engagement notice · UK2 · Web page

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