PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Provision of Hard Copy News Delivery Services

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

GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL AGENCY · 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.

Contracts Finder release IDf34f5380-e45e-4513-92be-c2294c5cf898-919785
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-d8b04985-1b5d-42d4-b341-c8c18459ffbb
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/6sQD8uds
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£149,220
award field
Tender value
£149,220
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
goods
CPV
22210000
Newspapers
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The Buyer was seeking to appoint a contracted Supplier for the provision of Hard Copy News for HM Treasury Group. Additional information: The contract will be for an initial 2 year period with an option to extend for a further two periods of 1 year (2 +1 +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 release30 Oct 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published2 Jan 2024
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published13 Nov 2023End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published2 Jan 2024
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published1 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

MENZIES DISTRIBUTION LIMITED

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

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

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