PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Inclusion Bases: exploring evidence of impact and models.

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

Department for Education · published 19 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.

Contracts Finder release ID860bd542-e1c3-4d4b-b3e1-02ef636ab76b-918303
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-76dee6b0-7bcc-49cd-b784-34d2192c05a4
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-124582
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
£327,895
award field
Tender value
£327,895
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
73000000
Research and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

**This is not a call for competition** This is the contract award notice for "Inclusion Bases: exploring evidence of impact and models". The competition was carried out using the CCS RM6126 Research & Insights Marketplace DPS.

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 release19 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published18 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published19 Aug 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published18 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Oct 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

ICF Consulting Services Ltd

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 19 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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