PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Core Infrastructure Hardware Support

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

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council · published 19 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 IDf4cc1d25-2a4d-40d9-b99b-a746dfb1032c-918259

Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-3b95fc52-ef35-43ec-95c2-cb50573138c4

Buyer identifierGB-CFS-188959

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: £185,000
Tender value: £200,000
Procurement method: Restricted procedure
Category: services
CPV: 72000000
Delivery: Not stated

PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (the Council) is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced and qualified Provider (the Provider) to deliver hardware support and maintenance for its Core hardware infrastructure. The Provider shall be an IBM partner with proven delivery capability and technical certifications in Power systems and AIX/IBM. The Provider shall also be capable of providing associated professional services, including consultancy, technical design, implementation, migration, upgrade, troubleshooting and project support services, on an ad hoc basis if required by the Council during the contract term. The proposed contract will be for an initial duration of three (3) years with a possible one (1) twelve (12) month extension. The Council reserves the right to amend the scope of the support requirement for the extension period. This is being run as a Further Competition under GCA Technology Products & Associated Services 2 Framework - RM6098 Lot 1 Hardware and Software

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.

01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release19 Oct 2026
02Tender period startsTender-period field as published14 Aug 2026
03Tender period endsTender-period field as published14 Aug 2026End precedes start · verify
04Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Dec 2026
05Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Nov 2029

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

Specialist Computer Centres PLC

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 19 Oct 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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