PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Content Management

How to read contract values: notice stages, dates and worked examples

Office for National Statistics · published 23 Oct 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.

Contracts Finder release ID0cb2d1a4-003c-41f6-a1e0-e056513fc98e-919039
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-62b9df7f-669b-4cd6-b6d4-04c0177b6e3c
Buyer identifierGB-GOR-D303
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£1,800,000
award field
Tender value
£1,800,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72500000
Computer-related services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

To provide specialist Wagtail CMS expertise, engineering capability and associated digital product support required to:  Maintain and enhance the new ONS website platform. Support migration from legacy publishing services.  Deliver remaining platform and CMS capabilities required to complete the transformation programme.  Support live service operation and continuous improvement.  Reduce delivery risks associated with specialist skills shortages.  Accelerate knowledge transfer and capability growth within ONS teams.  Support transition towards reduced supplier dependency over time. 

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

Source-date conflictAt least one reported end date precedes its corresponding start date. Check the official notice before using the schedule.
  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release23 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published1 Feb 2027
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 Oct 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Feb 2027
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Jan 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 23 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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