PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Employers' perspective of automatic enrolment and Defined Benefit Schemes

Department for Works and Pensions · published 6 Feb 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 ID7afd202f-5fc3-440b-8aab-5861be8da869-882601
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-ec3925ae-769a-44e2-b464-1b2538d3cda8
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-330878
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
£73,991
award field
Tender value
£147,983
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
Not stated
CPV
73110000
Research services
Delivery
Not stated
FY4 5ES
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Employers play a critical role in the success of automatic enrolment (AE) through ensuring over 22 million employees are saving into their workplace pension and underwriting the £1.2 trillion Defined Benefit (DB) industry.

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 release6 Feb 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published27 Jan 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published28 Jan 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published28 Sept 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

IFF Research Ltd

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 6 Feb 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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