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P4104111 Provision of Legal Advisers for DfT's Public Ownership Programme

DfTc - Department for Transport · published 9 Feb 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

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Contracts Finder release ID01932594-0538-4c3c-b0c3-bd7968edfd93-882714
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-5276dd7a-b366-4f58-8c65-7850b41449bf
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-163473
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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Award value
£3,550,000
award field
Tender value
£3,550,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Direct Award for the Provision of Legal Advisers for DfT's Public Ownership Programme and therefore we would like to award the contract to you. The call-off contract shall commence on the 24th November 2025 and the expiry date will be 23rd August 2026 for a period of nine months including an option to extend by three months to 9th November 2026 (subject to internal approval via the DfT governance process) .The total contract value will be up to £3,500.000.00 excluding VAT. This direct award supersedes the existing call-off contract (Ref: P4104001) for Legal Advisers - OLR Holdings, which is due to expire on 30 June 2026. The contract value has been extended by £50,000 excluding VAT, and the total contract value shall be amended to £3,550,000 excluding VAT. This extension has only been provided to allow for outstanding 0% VAT invoice payments to processed for disbursements.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release9 Feb 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 Nov 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published24 Nov 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published23 Aug 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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Published name only

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 9 Feb 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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