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Eligibility Checking System

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value: £779,990Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time): Fri 25 Sep 2015A deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Fri 25 Sep 2015, which is not an open deadline.
Published: 27 Aug 2015
Region: Any region

02/ The brief

What the notice says

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The Eligibility Checking System (ECS) is a tool offered to local authorities to assist them in identifying who is entitled to specified educational benefits. The system provides simple yes/no answers to enquiries as to whether a family is entitled. Although it was originally designed to check free school meal (FSM) entitlement, the system has recently been extended to enable local authorities to use the ECS to also check eligibility for the early learning for two-year-olds entitlement and Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP).

The introduction of Universal Credit (UC) – which will replace most of the benefits currently used to give entitlement – means that we need to change the eligibility criteria for FSM, EYPP and early learning for two-year-olds.

In turn this will mean that the ECS will require development to accommodate these new eligibility criteria, and will need to be tested against the new DWP UC IT system to ensure systems continue to interface correctly. It will also need to retain functionality to check eligibility against current (legacy) benefits until full roll-out of UC is achieved.

Start and end dates of the contract: October 2015 to December 2016 (with an option to extend for a further one year).

03/ Classification

CPV codes

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72000000

04/ History

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27 Aug 2015
Contract notice
Contract notice published 27 August 2015.
Release 1a16c3fe-6ceb-4f81-a680-38eba4499ff5
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What the source does not tell us

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06/ Questions

About this notice

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £779,990.

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