PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Legal Tasking Canal & River Trust Grants

DEFRA · published 9 Jul 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 ID720ec5a8-4d1b-4b4e-9927-03e8b936b54b-905313
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-d45792b9-c695-4854-af2e-913cf003f235
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-251591
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
£41,000
award field
Tender value
£41,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
Not stated
SW1P 3JR
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Commercial Legal Support on the Canal and River Trust grant agreement including: - Weekly meeting attendance with Policy Colleagues (usually on Tuesdays at 3pm). - Support on drafting the New Grant Agreement including the "Red" Clause and "Amber" Clauses. - Attendance at negotiation meetings with CRT (listed currently on: 13 February 10am, 18 Feb 11am and 26 Feb 10am and to include any other dates that may go in the diary). - Advice on negotiation strategy for termination for convenience clause aligned with Ministerial steer received. - Advice on consequential drafting for termination for convenience provisions in the new Grant Agreement. - Any other commercial legal advice as required to finalise the Canal and River Trust grant agreement.

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 release9 Jul 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published31 Mar 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 May 2026
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

DLA Piper UK LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

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

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