PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Contract Award

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

DSIT · 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 ID2da4ff24-acdf-4b97-b10d-4eb4f0c462bb-919014
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-6670f49e-ed2d-433a-8dca-9229e3fc3bea
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-273199
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
£500,000
award field
Tender value
£500,000
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

Contract for Legal Services / Advice

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 published15 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published15 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published15 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published16 Jun 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.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

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

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