Contracts Finder notice
Home Office biometic testing and assurance
Authority: Home Office
CPV: System quality assurance planning services (72224200)
Published contract value£3,000,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 2 Sept 2028
Awarded to Ingenium biometric laboratories LTD
Contract starts 3 Sept 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe requirement is for the provision of an independent Biometric Testing & Assurance (BT&A) service to support the Home Office's use of biometric technologies across identity assurance, age assessment and related programmes. The service will provide specialist assurance to ensure biometric systems perform as intended, remain resilient to fraud and adversarial attacks, and continue to operate effectively throughout their lifecycle
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- tender_520354/1613118
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Additional classifications 1: Reference
- 72227000
- Additional classifications 1: Scheme
- CPV
- Additional classifications 1: Description
- Software integration consultancy services
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- CR0 2WF; British Oversea Territories; Channel Islands; Europe; Isle of Man; Rest of the World; United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision3 Sept 2026
- Contract starts3 Sept 2026
- Notice published22 Sept 2026
- Contract ends2 Sept 2028
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Home OfficeContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Ingenium biometric laboratories LTDSupplier
- Identifier
- 12082763 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-676f09c8-ecf8-431a-9b6a-622c5faf8a83-2026-09-22T13:54:21+01:00
- Published
- 22 Sept 2026
- Latest update
- 22 Sept 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-676f09c8-ecf8-431a-9b6a-622c5faf8a83
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-676f09c8-ecf8-431a-9b6a-622c5faf8a83-1