PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

CPT_25_01 ERP System (Payroll Services)

National Audit Office · published 19 Dec 2025. 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 IDc6431c45-dbf5-45f2-9429-ac51c6f8f00c-876947
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-33a96eca-84ef-45f6-8b66-c9af40e58ce1
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sBN45ywB
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
£379,161
award field
Tender value
£379,161
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72222300
Information technology services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The National Audit Office (NAO) has awarded a Payroll Services contract to Softcat plc using the Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 14 framework. The awarded contract for Payroll Services will be subcontracted to MHR International UK Limited, which will deliver payroll processing and associated services as part of the overall contract delivery. This includes the provision of MHR iTrent Software and Associated Services. The contract commenced on Sunday 30th November 2025, for four years and two months until Tuesday 29th January 2030. The estimated total contract value, exclusive of VAT is up to £315,967.58 and inclusive of VAT, is up to £379,161.10 over the four-year and two months duration.

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 release19 Dec 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 Oct 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published30 Nov 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published29 Jan 2030
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 19 Dec 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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