PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

External Legal Services

University of Portsmouth · published 10 Nov 2025. 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 ID56545a0a-5436-428c-bdbc-477a774ac68f-871508
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-05f5ed93-56e9-4303-a4d6-0b15e6c04e38
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/nb7K3Nvb
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
£870,000
award field
Tender value
£870,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
Not stated
PO1 2UP
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This requirement is for external legal services following a further competition under the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework Agreement (RM240), Public Sector Legal Services, under Lot 1A: Full-Service Provision. The University is seeking to establish a multi-supplier Call-Off Contract to support its in-house legal team, under six (6) services categories. Service Category 1: Construction and Property Service Category 2: Litigation Service Category 3: International Legal Advice Service Category 4: Employment Law Service Category 5: Higher Education Law Service Category 6: Public Sector Procurement

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.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release10 Nov 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published29 Aug 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published3 Nov 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2028
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 10 Nov 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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