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P4104088A Legal Advisers for the Euston Programme Lot 1

DfTc - Department for Transport · published 16 Sept 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 ID0fc33558-fce8-4c20-95f9-36e24b030cc2-914411
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-180c5fb0-e3a2-4342-9d32-9635888714e6
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-163473
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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

Award value
£8,000,000
award field
Tender value
£8,000,000
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

The call-off contract shall commence on 28th March 2025 and the expiry date will be 27th March 2027, for a period of two years. This includes an extended period of eight months, bringing the final expiry date to 27th November 2027. The total contract value shall be £8,000,000 excluding VAT, including an option to increase the contract value by up to 50%, subject internal approval via DfT's governance process. This procurement activity was a mini competition under the Crown Commercial Services RM6204 Rail Legal Services Panel and the Commercial Agreement Terms and Conditions shall apply.

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 release16 Sept 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published28 Mar 2025
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published28 Feb 2025End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published28 Mar 2025
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published27 Nov 2027
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.

Published name only

Herbert Smith Freehills

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 16 Sept 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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