PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Spend Analysis & Recovery Services (SARS)

NHS England · published 9 Oct 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 IDf143d71f-9154-40e2-9ad9-3feab40f3de9-867499
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-c369b2f6-68a8-4f54-8048-60d94c59bebb
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-241000
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
£600,000
award field
Tender value
£600,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79410000
Business and management consultancy services
Delivery
Not stated
LS1 4AP
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

A service to review NHS Trust expenditure on bills e.g. utility bills, looking back up to 6 years and recovering any over payments. SARS will be zero-cost to NHSE, a budget will not be charged to provide this service. The service purpose is to recover money, on behalf of NHS Trusts, that has been incorrectly charged for utilities bills over a period of up to 6 years. The recovered money will benefit the relevant NHS Trust. The service will be funded by the supplier withholding a percentage of money recovered.

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 release9 Oct 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published2 May 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published5 Oct 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published5 Oct 2026
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

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 9 Oct 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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