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What the buyer wrote

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 cri…

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Atkins Ltd£780kends (30 Dec 2016)

Details

What the buyer calls it
Eligibility Checking System
How they are buying
Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
Type
services
Suitable for small firms
The buyer says yes. What that is worth
Work starts
4 Oct 2015
Work ends
30 Dec 2016

Who the buyer named

The buyer published a contact address on this notice.

matthew.dutton@education.gov.uk