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PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

SAST Licensing

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

Intellectual Property Office · published 30 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.

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Contracts Finder release ID95e00071-d21d-4b51-ab42-55841a6e78c7-919875
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-fc8db0a9-5083-48b0-9c7b-b088ac89df06
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-104430
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
£389,761
award field
Tender value
£389,761
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
Not stated
CPV
48517000
IT software package
Delivery
Not stated
NP10 8QQ
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a security capability used to scan source code, infrastructure-as-code and software artefacts for vulnerabilities before software is released

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 release30 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published17 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published17 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published17 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published17 Sept 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

Softcat PLC

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 30 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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