PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Network Optimisation project Consultancy

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

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council · published 27 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 IDb0ae0fc6-0910-492a-8be7-0c5af63b94de-919371
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-1c260acf-ae6e-485b-aa0f-d79679a4dc29
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-189872
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
£26,978
award field
Tender value
£26,978
tender field
Procurement method
Direct award
Category
services
CPV
48000000
Software package and information systems
Delivery
Not stated
S70 2DR
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Consultancy Services to support the Council in moving away from their existing traditional centrally dependent hub-andspoke network model

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 release27 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published27 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published27 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published27 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published27 Sept 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

CGI IT UK LIMITED

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 27 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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