# 5879 - provision Machine-Readable DVS Register Build and Support

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by DSIT.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [DSIT](/buyers/dsit/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [Ernst & Young LLP](/suppliers/ernst-young/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £3,057,000
- Tender value: £9,500,000
- Award date: 31 March 2026
- Published: 22 April 2026
- Contract start: 31 March 2026
- Contract end: 30 March 2028
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: a63ed206-61c0-4fd5-b611-d4c41487cb5a-893982
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-8b1e519d-b1c7-4324-84e8-9732437bdc08

## 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\. Additional information: 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 additional years, with each extension subject to annual budgetary approval\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a63ed206-61c0-4fd5-b611-d4c41487cb5a-893982)