# Explore education statistics platform support

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Department for Education](/buyers/department-for-education/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Hive IT](/contract-winners/hive-it/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £2,820,000
- Tender value: £2,820,000
- Award date: 27 May 2026
- Published: 20 July 2026
- Contract start: 1 August 2026
- Contract end: 1 August 2028
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 6ba029dd-e2b0-480b-a7d2-44e1724e4a1e-907223
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-78d6d678-325b-450b-9ce5-8a12d4de8525

## Description

Explore education statistics \(EES\) is a digital service used by analysts within the Department for Education \(DfE\) to create and publish official and national statistics releases\. The service is in public beta and is relied on by users, with the department having regulatory requirements for keeping its statistical service publicly available\. We require that the service is continually worked on, with bugs and issues addressed as they are raised and a regular flow of small feature optimisations to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the users including accessibility standards\. Maintenance and minor enhancement of the service throughout the duration of the contract whilst enhancement work is taking place through other Statements of Work\. We expect this to include monitoring and optimisation of the service as well as bug fixing\.

## Related contract awards

- [IT Research and Advisory Services II](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-db7f8498-b870-407b-a72f-9d6a97072ad6): Department for Education
- [project\_10572 - Speech and Language Therapists in education: a mixed methods research project](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-92b2087c-8ff4-4777-8932-c01074274242): Department for Education
- [Writer services for training content development \(tranche 2\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ed803f80-369a-4e97-b628-47bd530bb759): Department for Education
- [Explore Education Statistics](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f2fbbe01-73ac-4e8c-abf1-87d8406e6339): Department for Education
- [Explore Education Statistics - extending public beta development phase](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-53cc53ed-61ab-4df8-b878-2801f905cb69): Department for Education
- [EES BAU and post MVP enhancement](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-62f09f59-13f9-4cd4-a53c-845fc4780a0e): Department for Education

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6ba029dd-e2b0-480b-a7d2-44e1724e4a1e-907223)