Hippo Digital secures £31m DfE contract

The Department for Education (DfE) has awarded a 4+1 year contract (worth up to £31m) to Leeds-based Hippo Digital for “digital skills, product delivery and user-centred design capabilities” for programmes within the department’s Data Operations and Data Engineering Division.

The award demonstrates a commitment to modernising DfE data infrastructure and improving how education sector data flows through government systems, with key programmes within scope including: attendance data systems developed during the pandemic, children’s social care data platforms, child safeguarding notification systems, and learner attainment and progress monitoring.

Hippo Digital will deploy specialists at multiple DfE locations to work in ‘blended teams’ alongside civil servants, focusing on product delivery and user-centred design roles across multiple delivery phases, from discovery through to live services.

This deal represents another substantial public sector win for Hippo Digital, coming after the company secured a two-year call-off contract (with an optional six-month extension) – worth £26.5m – for user-centred design work to help strengthen NHS England’s in-house capability in February (see NHS England awards key digital contracts).

Posted by: Craig Wentworth at 09:56

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