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PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Legal services in relation to the proposed acquisition of IDS

Department for Business and Trade · published 5 Feb 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.

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Contracts Finder release ID760b063a-1b29-4741-9a4b-312c8f7826d4-823396
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-73a5cf44-704e-4bf6-8fa8-6c5f8ee0dd0b
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-308730
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£225,000
award field
Tender value
£225,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
Not stated
EC1A 2FG
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

To provide DBT with legal services and advice in relation to the proposed acquisition of International Distribution Services by EP Group.

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 release5 Feb 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published10 Jun 2024
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published10 Jun 2024
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2025
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 5 Feb 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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