PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Managed Vulnerability and Threat-Led Intelligence Service

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

NHS Blood and Transplant · published 28 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 IDe7bae29d-37a8-49a0-94e6-5d5d20d6a263-919520
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-6c299fff-9750-48ba-afcb-634d0ee35e8a
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-330767
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
£650,090
award field
Tender value
£650,090
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
BS34 7QH
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Provision of a Managed Vulnerability Management and Threat-Led Intelligence Service.

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 release28 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published23 Jan 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published15 Jan 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published23 Jan 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published22 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

Softcat plc

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 28 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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