PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

DHSC: AI Ambassador Network

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

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) · published 22 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 IDb8e9bfa5-e658-41e1-a6ee-50380670d5ad-918775
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a5f6aa80-1ccb-4d38-9b00-46b5aedfda53
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-156189
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
£46,100
award field
Tender value
£55,320
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
Category
services
CPV
79310000
Market research services
Delivery
Not stated
SW1H 0EU
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

DHSC are procuring a national Evaluator to conduct an evaluation of the AI Ambassador Network which they lead and oversee.

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 release22 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published24 Sept 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published24 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published24 Sept 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published10 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

Edinburgh Innovations Limited

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 22 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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