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PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Provision of Pre-Paid Cards

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

Southend-on-sea Borough Council · published 30 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.

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Contracts Finder release IDea03ee3d-c11a-464f-9156-96e73aab7349-919786
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-8dbc9b94-cf56-4068-b524-035293f47390
Buyer identifierGB-LAE-SOS
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
£132,720
award field
Tender value
£132,720
tender field
Procurement method
Restricted procedure (above threshold)
Category
services
CPV
30163000
Charge cards
Delivery
Not stated
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PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Southend-on-Sea City Council (SCC) is looking for a single supplier to provide pre-paid cards or virtual cards that will be administered by number of different departments. The Council has many functions that need a payment to be made or cash to be given out. Examples of these are, payments to Court of Protection service users, Essential Living Fund, Grants, Payments to Care Leavers and users that have No Recourse to Public Funds.

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 release30 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published10 Jan 2027
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published17 Sept 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published10 Jan 2027
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published10 Jan 2031
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.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 30 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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