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Provision of Legal Advice

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

DVLA - Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency · published 20 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.

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Contracts Finder release ID37b71231-aee3-4f8b-b44c-dce40a873769-918377
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-0baef98f-1ba4-41da-80e1-e9e08822103a
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-184469
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
£300,000
award field
Tender value
£300,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79111000
Legal advisory services
Delivery
Not stated
SA6 7JL
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Contracted awarded for the Provision of Legal Advice 2026 to support the Direct Debit procurement. The Commercial Directorate requires a specialist external legal service to support the Agency's Direct Debit re-procurement programme. This will ensure the future provision of a resilient, effective and compliant service that continues to meet business and customer needs.

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 release20 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published30 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published9 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Sept 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

Mills & Reeve LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 20 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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