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P4104120 Provision of Legal Advisers for Railway Pensions

DfTc - Department for Transport · published 24 Apr 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 IDb6c78710-22c7-4762-9615-6ce94cb63e9d-894445
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-36e9c520-9fba-4fef-afc0-3fdce78b993d
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-163473
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£400,000
award field
Tender value
£400,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The call-off contract shall commence on the 29th May 2025 and the expiry date will be 28th May 2026 for a period of 12 months with the option to extend by 12 months.The total contract value will be up to £400,000.00 excluding VAT. This Direct Award is being offered under Panel RM6204 Rail Legal Services Framework and the Panel Terms and Conditions shall apply.

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 release24 Apr 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 May 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published28 May 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published28 May 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

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 24 Apr 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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