diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 278b0c20254..b33f1de940e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -383,6 +383,12 @@ version = "0.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4c7f02d4ea65f2c1853089ffd8d2787bdbc63de2f0d29dedbcf8ccdfa0ccd4cf"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "base58"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6107fe1be6682a68940da878d9e9f5e90ca5745b3dec9fd1bb393c8777d4f581"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "base64"
 version = "0.13.1"
@@ -3062,6 +3068,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "keyword-search-contract"
 version = "2.0.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "base58",
  "platform-value",
  "platform-version",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/packages/keyword-search-contract/Cargo.toml b/packages/keyword-search-contract/Cargo.toml
index c0ece672ff6..454b52c96e0 100644
--- a/packages/keyword-search-contract/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/keyword-search-contract/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ thiserror = "2.0.12"
 platform-version = { path = "../rs-platform-version" }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0" }
 platform-value = { path = "../rs-platform-value" }
+[dev-dependencies]
+base58 = "0.2.0"
diff --git a/packages/keyword-search-contract/lib/systemIds.js b/packages/keyword-search-contract/lib/systemIds.js
index f1aa5b80c07..82fdd9b7dd6 100644
--- a/packages/keyword-search-contract/lib/systemIds.js
+++ b/packages/keyword-search-contract/lib/systemIds.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 module.exports = {
   ownerId: '11111111111111111111111111111111',
-  contractId: '7CSFGeF4WNzgDmx94zwvHkYaG3Dx4XEe5LFsFgJswLbm',
+  contractId: 'BsjE6tQxG47wffZCRQCovFx5rYrAYYC3rTVRWKro27LA',
 };
diff --git a/packages/keyword-search-contract/src/lib.rs b/packages/keyword-search-contract/src/lib.rs
index e074d139c7f..0375042f95f 100644
--- a/packages/keyword-search-contract/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages/keyword-search-contract/src/lib.rs
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ use platform_version::version::PlatformVersion;
 use serde_json::Value;
 
 pub const ID_BYTES: [u8; 32] = [
-    92, 20, 14, 101, 92, 2, 101, 187, 194, 168, 8, 113, 109, 225, 132, 121, 133, 19, 89, 24, 173,
-    81, 205, 253, 11, 118, 102, 75, 169, 91, 163, 124,
+    161, 147, 167, 153, 40, 225, 219, 101, 50, 156, 28, 146, 150, 52, 114, 213, 56, 154, 106, 15,
+    79, 66, 18, 156, 94, 146, 216, 104, 140, 93, 170, 215,
 ];
 
 pub const OWNER_ID_BYTES: [u8; 32] = [0; 32];
@@ -35,3 +35,29 @@ pub fn load_documents_schemas(platform_version: &PlatformVersion) -> Result<Valu
         }),
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use base58::FromBase58;
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    /// Ensure that the ID constant matches the expected value
+    /// and that it can be encoded to base58 correctly.
+    fn test_id() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            ID,
+            Identifier(IdentifierBytes32(ID_BYTES)),
+            "ID should match the expected value"
+        );
+
+        let base58_decoded = "BsjE6tQxG47wffZCRQCovFx5rYrAYYC3rTVRWKro27LA"
+            .from_base58()
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            base58_decoded, ID_BYTES,
+            "ID should match the base58 decoded value"
+        );
+    }
+}