PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Best Start Family Hubs Evaluation

Department for Education · published 9 Sept 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 ID4f8fcdc6-531f-40bf-996d-0a907e37c6b0-913463
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-cecef360-c326-4f42-b6cc-217c2114b0e9
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-338205
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
£4,762,158
award field
Tender value
Not disclosed
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
73000000
Research and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery
Not stated
EC3 8AD
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Best Start Family Hubs Evaluation

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 release9 Sept 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published6 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published6 Jul 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published6 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

Ecorys

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 9 Sept 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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