PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Provision of IT Research, Advisory, and Benchmarking Services

DVLA - Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency · published 16 Feb 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 IDdc0988ce-a8c1-423e-acbb-3d3b6d12b528-884119
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-60f98ed0-7f37-49f4-9560-824a020a26f8
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-331244
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
£409,400
award field
Tender value
£409,400
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72000000
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery
Not stated
SA6 7JL
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Provision of IT Research, Advisory, and Benchmarking Services

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 release16 Feb 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published5 Jan 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Feb 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Jan 2028
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

Gartner UK Limited

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 16 Feb 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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