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Procurement update
We’ve been working to finalise all the documents for the procurement of our next contractual Framework Agreement for certified companies. We’ve now completed all the paperwork and expect the formal Contract Notice to be published in the Official Journal of …
GOV.UK Verify service managers - monthly meeting
Today we held our monthly meeting for service managers that are planning to start using GOV.UK Verify. Janet recently wrote about the services that plan to start using GOV.UK Verify over the next 6 months and how, by March 2016, …
What it means to be a 'certified company'
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Janet Hughes, Posted on:
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How GOV.UK Verify works, Policy, Standards and certification
This post is about how certified companies are assured as being safe for people to use as part of GOV.UK Verify. When you use GOV.UK Verify for the first time to access a government service, you'll choose a certified company …
Making sure we have a range of certified companies
This post is about how we’re going to approach the issue of sub-contractors in our next procurement. It gives an update on our approach based on feedback we received at our market briefing event in October. Full details will be …
National Audit Office briefing paper on identity assurance
The National Audit Office (the body that scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament) has published a briefing paper on identity assurance today. The paper gives an overview of how the identity assurance programme and GOV.UK Verify work, how GOV.UK …
How we're embedding the Identity Assurance Principles in GOV.UK Verify
GOV.UK Verify is designed to preserve users’ privacy when they access digital services. The identity assurance programme’s independent Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group recognised the need for GOV.UK Verify to go further than the requirements of the Data Protection Act …
What you'll need to prove your identity
We’ve been developing GOV.UK Verify over more than 18 months of user research and iteration. Since we launched the public beta of GOV.UK Verify, we’ve been gathering feedback from the first people to use it. We’re using that feedback to …
Digidentity joins GOV.UK Verify public beta
We’ve reached another important milestone this week on the identity assurance programme - the second certified company (or 'identity provider') has joined the GOV.UK Verify public beta. Experian took part in our private beta from February to October and was …
How we’re working to increase the range of data sources available for GOV.UK Verify
GOV.UK Verify involves people choosing a certified company to verify their identity and allow them to access digital government services. Over time, we want as many people as possible to be able to verify their identity using GOV.UK Verify. To …
Procurement update
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Janet Hughes and Oli Blackaby, Posted on:
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Delivery, Industry and market engagement
At our market briefing event on 30 October we talked about our intention to launch Procurement 2 at the end of November. Since then we've been busy reviewing the procurement documents on the basis of feedback we received at the event and finalising them for publication. Our …