PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Financial Review Services

Department for Business and Trade · published 20 Aug 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 ID4dea81f6-8846-421d-b8ba-96f80952bdfd-911429
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-74113f37-d053-461b-822c-9a470eec1e22
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-308730
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
£1,000,000
award field
Tender value
£1,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79900000
Miscellaneous business and business-related services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Appoint financial advisors to provide independent financial due diligence and commercial analysis to support HMG.

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 Aug 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published9 Aug 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published7 Aug 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published9 Aug 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published4 Aug 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

Ernest & Young LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

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

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