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Housing Benefit Assurance Process

Chelmsford City Council · published 9 Mar 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 ID139a7bfa-d2d8-402b-8492-56c1618ab48d-887781
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-d96d7eb3-9d77-4370-a9a9-485cb0d019a8
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-41069
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
£200,000
award field
Tender value
£200,000
tender field
Procurement method
Other -
Category
services
CPV
66000000
Financial and insurance services
Delivery
East of England, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

A provider to carry out the Councils housing Benefit assurance process covering a period of 4 years. This includes the financial years of: 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27 and 2027/28. Award via mini-competition using Lot 2 of the CCS RM6310 framework.

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.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release9 Mar 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published12 Dec 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published5 Jan 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published4 Mar 2030
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

GRANT THORNTON UK LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

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

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