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Postal Goods and Services - AWARD

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

London Borough of Croydon · 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 ID6ae72918-924f-4c1e-a34d-ce90e286f550-918422
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-9a38410a-15d1-4e97-a71f-35e3fe5051b9
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-256295
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
£1,400,000
award field
Tender value
£1,400,000
tender field
Procurement method
Restricted procedure
Category
services
CPV
64110000
Postal services
Delivery
Not stated
CR0 1EA
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The Council requires a new contract for the Postal Goods and Services and has therefore approached Royal Mail to tender for this service as a direct award under the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) Postal Services & Solutions Framework RM6280 Lot 2: Collection and Delivery of Letters, Large Letters and Parcels within UK. The contract is for 12 months, with an option to extend for 6 months, bringing the aggregate contract period to 18 months, with service go-live scheduled for 14 September 2026.

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 published14 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published11 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published13 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published13 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

Royal Mail Group Ltd

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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