AwardedAwarded 7 July 2026

SARs Partial Outsourcing & STAIRs Capacity Creation

Aster Group Limited · Public body

In brief

Aster Group Limited awarded IT and software work to Data Protection People Ltd on 7 July 2026.

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What the notice says

Partial outsourcing of Subject Access Request (SAR) processing to provide additional Information Governance capacity ahead of the STAIRs regime under the Social Housing (Regulation) Act. The supplier will provide AI/OCR-enabled deduplication and redaction (100GB processing) and structured human review (540 hours), with explanations of exemptions applied. Aster keeps customer engagement, decision-making and disclosure. This is a capacity-based service intended to run until 31 March 2027, while Aster gathers benchmarking data and considers a future competitive procurement.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Data Protection People Ltd (SME)£38,544
7 July 2026 to 6 July 2027

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 094964-2026

About the buyer

Aster Group LimitedLast 12 months

Procurements

83

Awards

62

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From notice 094964-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 7 October 2026. We last checked for changes on 7 October 2026.