PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Candidate Ability Testing

National Audit Office · published 8 Oct 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.

Contracts Finder release ID91207a88-b999-4412-a238-87352a0c772d-867380
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a82d915d-8d44-4c35-9b23-1e6532491714
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sBN45ywB
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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Award value
£36,000
award field
Tender value
£36,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79600000
Recruitment services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

National Audit Office (NAO) has awarded a contract to the Supplier for the provision of numerical reasoning tests for candidates during assessment processes. The Contract has been called off from the G-Cloud 13 framework. The initial contract period is 1 year with the option to extend by 2 further periods of 1 year (1+1+1). The total awarded value on this notice includes VAT. As of October 2025, the contract has been extended by 12 months until Thursday 3rd September 2026

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release8 Oct 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published10 Aug 2023
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published3 Sept 2023
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published3 Sept 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 8 Oct 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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