PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Data Lake House Analytics and Insight for West Midlands Fire Service

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

West Midlands Fire Service · 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 IDd53719f8-012c-4850-8e65-a3063fc5d1d4-919169
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-f19b3b17-28f1-4823-bc2e-a45f08943c28
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/jBZs3Y7f
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
£250,000
award field
Tender value
£250,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72000000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery
West Midlands, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) has awarded a contract to a delivery partner to provide a complete, fixed-price engagement to design, build, govern and transition a cloud-based Lakehouse data platform that will serve as the organisation's single trusted source of data and insight. The contract consists of 2 phases; Phase 1 - Discovery and Insight: Assessment of business requirements, the data landscape, architecture options, the delivery approach, and the implementation roadmap. Phase 2 - Design and Build (Optional): Subject to the successful completion and outcomes of Phase 1, WMFS may, at its sole discretion, instruct the supplier to proceed with the design, implementation, governance and transition of the Lakehouse platform. The contract value includes both Phase 1 and the optional Phase 2. No commitment is made to proceed with Phase 2, which will be awarded only after completion and evaluation of Phase 1.

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 published21 Oct 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published21 Oct 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published21 Oct 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

SPECIALIST COMPUTER CENTRES PLC

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.

Inspect the official JSON release ↗