PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Unified Support

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

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · published 26 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 ID44116dd3-2ad9-406c-be5f-1e9a74aff042-919238
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a41aa4df-773b-4285-8186-2e1d65bb2878
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-288627
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
£6,903,095
award field
Tender value
£6,903,095
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72261000
Software support services
Delivery
Not stated
SW1P 4DF
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Unified Enterprise support across all Microsoft products

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 release26 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published30 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2029
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

Microsoft

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 26 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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