PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

SIP Network Provider

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

Lancashire County Council · published 2 Nov 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 ID74b0903f-b9cd-4114-b6e9-1d28b057c6cd-920115
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-7a9b2503-33a0-41af-a865-ad5cfbeb37f4
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/v2gr32H4
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
£250,000
award field
Tender value
£250,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
goods
CPV
64200000
Telecommunications services
Delivery
North West, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Provision of a resilient SIP network service for Lancashire County Council, including SIP trunk connectivity, telephone number hosting and porting, inbound and outbound call routing, business continuity, service management, monitoring and reporting. The service consolidates the Council's SIP provision and supports existing and future telephony requirements. This also includes the scope for other Lancashire based local authorities to utilise this agreement due to Local Government Reorganisation. Call-off via a further competition under the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) Network Services framework (RM6116), Lot 4a: Analogue Telephony. Call off term is for 2 years and 3 months with 3 x 12 month options to extend.

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 release2 Nov 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published1 Nov 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published21 Aug 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Nov 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Jan 2031
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.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 2 Nov 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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