DfE · pre deployment

Apprenticeship Withdrawal Rate AI

"This tool aims to help identify the likelihood of an apprentice withdrawing from their course, along with the key risk factors and the specific time intervals where the possibility is higher. The tool hopes to improve low achievement rates."

Publicly known

Owner: DfE
Vendor: EVIDEN HOLDING UK 2 LIMITED, Farsight Consulting Limited

Undisclosed

Model architecture
Model performance benchmarks
Training data provenance

Who is actually being paid

Supplier arrangement · described jointly for all 2 suppliers

Role

Farsight Consulting Limited: Lead contractor Role: Project coordination support, policy guidance, review Eviden UK (Subcontractor) Role: AI model construction, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), Data Cleaning, Proof of Concept (POC) work, Data Insights & Analytics, AI model testing, Software Development, Reporting. DFE blended team : Oversight, management, email communication, stakeholder management.

Procurement procedure

OPEN. Joint bid between Farsight and Eviden (formerly Atos) as part of a wider service contract to provide Data and AI services to the Apprenticeship Service.

Data access terms

No External Data Sharing with Contractors & third parties. Contractors access resources directly within the DfE estate using department managed devices and DfE managed cloud services only.

EVIDEN HOLDING UK 2 LIMITED

14542627

Verified at Companies House · checked 4 November 2026

Registered as EVIDEN HOLDING UK 2 LIMITED · Dissolved · incorporated 2022

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Farsight Consulting Limited

07215255

Verified at Companies House · checked 4 November 2026

Registered as FARSIGHT CONSULTING LIMITED · Active · incorporated 2010

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Source: ATRS record · last updated Mon Apr 28 2025