PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Accounts Payable Foresics

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

Bristol City Council · published 21 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 ID877f467f-38c2-424d-81d6-c872341c8baa-918619
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-c62320ee-3c70-411e-b390-b0d7ffc18f8c
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-54258
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
£108,360
award field
Tender value
£108,360
tender field
Procurement method
Other -
Category
services
CPV
48440000
Financial analysis and accounting software package
Delivery
Not stated
BS1 5TR
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

A forensic tool to identify, potential errors in payments before they are made, this includes duplicate payments, incorrect suppliers and fraud. The software is an addition to the corporate finance system which does not have this level of functionality built into it.

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 release21 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published24 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published24 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published24 Oct 2029
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

FISCAL Technologies UK Ltd

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 21 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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