PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Statutory Casework Service Design

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

DEFRA · published 20 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 IDa19b6b94-ad9d-4f23-9eaf-98978fa8a899-918315
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-766090f4-3928-4b46-bd2f-0e8a11651e9d
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-249702
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
£341,718
award field
Tender value
£341,718
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79411000
General management consultancy services
Delivery
Not stated
SW1P 4DF
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Natural England requires external specialist service design support to develop a coherent future model for its statutory casework services. The SCCR programme spans Planning, Wildlife Licensing, Protected Sites and has significant Digital elements. Services are currently led by different Service Owners using a variety of processes and models.

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 release20 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published4 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published2 Oct 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published4 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published22 Jan 2027
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

KPMG LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 20 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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