Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: the Education Authority - Education Network for Northern Ireland - "Education Network (NI)" (GBP 721,000,000)

UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API Authoritative source Published 15th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Find a Tender by the Education Authority. Procurement: Education Network for Northern Ireland - "Education Network (NI)". Description: The purpose of this VEAT notice is to give prior notice to the market that the Education Authority (“EA”) intends to modify the Contract. The EA considers this is a modification under Regulation 72(1)(e) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The modification is not substantial. Category: services. Value: GBP 721,000,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Capita Managed IT Solutions.

Publication: UK Find a Tender Service OCDS API · Government/Regulator
Published: 15th October 2026
Original report: find-tender.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 15th October 2026 · 16:30

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: NHS England - Modernising Education in TEL (METEL) (GBP 1,320,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

What the source reported

What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.