PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Award Notice for Pre-Award Costing Tool under G-Cloud 14

UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER · published 14 Aug 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 ID9c3ce2c3-5a39-48d6-8afb-3a92082618ee-897913
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-9269b72c-0616-4165-9f54-eb41c304712d
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/k3Hx4y9N
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
£220,000
award field
Tender value
£220,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72268000
Software supply services
Delivery
North West, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This Award Notice follows the formal searches, service assessment and evaluation conducted through CCS G-Cloud 14, of a pre award research costing tool which resulted in an award to Fusion Practices - GrantsNow, for use within University of Chester. The contract values in this notice are for the full potential 4 year contract period and have been rounded up.

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 release14 Aug 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published20 Apr 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published17 Apr 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published20 Apr 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published20 Apr 2030
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.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 14 Aug 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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