PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Dev Ops Service

Department for Work and Pensions · published 22 Apr 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 ID9360c8eb-93e1-406c-85c7-41f4ece74b92-841535
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-6900c518-3767-42df-b72b-9295b60f1758
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-82079
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
£1,125,000
award field
Tender value
£1,500,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72000000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

As part of a wider strategy to build a future operating state, Benefit Payments Services (VMER Services) require optimisation of their current digital services to align with DWP Cloud First objectives. The BPS estate hosts the VMER applications and is built using Cobol with the use of Ansible to build the current Cloud Platform. The scope of this service optimisation is based on an existing AWS Cloud Platform and will include build, design and release, aligning with GDS digital principles (Discovery/Alpha/Beta)

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 release22 Apr 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published28 Mar 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2028
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

Layer 7 Limited

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 22 Apr 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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