PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Commercial Strategy and Procurement Delivery Services

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

Department for Work and Pensions · published 30 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 ID297a9e7d-0888-428c-82df-2d2d50b25df8-919906
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-115958cc-5120-4c51-b3fa-8e2978996dc0
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-338174
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
£4,400,000
award field
Tender value
£4,400,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79418000
Procurement consultancy services
Delivery
Not stated
UB9 5NJ
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

DWP has awarded a call-off contract covering strategic commercial services and operational procurement delivery commissioned through individual Statements of Work. This contract contains provisions for extension up to 24 Months, which can be enacted in whole or in part, and at various periods. The value published in this notice relates to the initial contract term only and excludes the value of any optional extension periods.

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 release30 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published8 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published16 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published8 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published7 Apr 2028
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

Deecon Consulting Limited

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 30 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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