# Quality Assurance and Testing Services RM3810 - Lot 4: Functional Testing

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Department For Education.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Department For Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [EDGE TESTING SOLUTIONS LIMITED](/suppliers/edge-testing-solutions/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £2,450,000
- Tender value: £2,450,000
- Award date: 25 October 2019
- Published: 27 February 2020
- Contract start: 6 December 2019
- Contract end: 5 December 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: b4efc9a7-c2b3-466a-83eb-feda20ba6e9f-346304
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-26dfe0ab-328a-40da-9a99-5e5051387a95

## Description

Testing Services, to support Data, Digital and Technology \(DDaT\) projects across the DfE\. The contract will be a "Call Off" and be used as and when services are required, via individual Statements of Work" \(SOW\)\. This contract under Lot 4: Functional Testing will ensure that there is: • Access to a flexible and cost effective pool of Test specialist professionals, bought 'as a service' and capable of delivering services across the full life-cycle of your project or design process • continuity of Testing services across DDaT • on-going reliability in the provision of testing services\. • a means for individual work requests to be used to request testing specialists professional\. • a means for the contracts to be managed as call-off contracts, where individual project teams will continue to be responsible for demonstrating their own business cases, arranging the appropriate spend controls and following the agreed governance & assurance frameworks to call-off any services they require to support delivery of their project\(s\)\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b4efc9a7-c2b3-466a-83eb-feda20ba6e9f-346304)