Northamptonshire Serious Violence Duty Funding awards 2026

Tender information last checkedLast checked 16 Oct 2026, 15:59.

Opportunity overview

The Police Fire and Crime Commissioner on behalf of the Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP) are looking to award Funding Contracts for the provision of Serious Violence interventions in the County of Northamptonshire. The NSVPP is made up of the following organisations: • Justice – Youth Justice Service (Children’s Trust) and Probation • Heath – Integrated Care Board (ICB) • Local Authorities – North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council – Community Safety Partnership (CSP), Public Health, Education Representatives • Police – OPFCC acting on behalf of Northamptonshire Police • Fire – OPFCC acting as Northants Fire & Rescue Bids should relate to the six crime types outlined in the Funding Pack. Applications are welcome from organisations that have identified projects focusing on primary prevention interventions as outlined in the Public Health model of Violence Prevention. Bids for the period 01/10/2026-30/09/2027 for values of UP TO £140k exc VAT will be considered. There are options to extend agreements beyond the initial term but these are not guaranteed as they are subject to funding decisions from the Home Office.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Free 2 Talk Community Interest Company

Matched by exact name

Published award value: £94.3k
Awarded: 7 Sept 2026
Award ID: 1
Status: active
Identifier: GB-PPON PGVB-6318-DPBN
Location: Northampton, UKF24, NN5 7LQ, United Kingdom

Delapre Abbey Preservation Trust

Matched by exact name

Published award value: £49.1k
Awarded: 7 Sept 2026
Award ID: 2
Status: active
Identifier: GB-PPON PLNV-7269-JCQN
Location: Northampton, UKF24, NN4 8AW, United Kingdom

Athletic Elite LTD

Matched by exact name

Published award value: £120k
Awarded: 7 Sept 2026
Award ID: 3
Status: active
Identifier: GB-PPON PWGP-8662-RQPN
Location: Northampton, UKF24, NN1 5NA, United Kingdom

The Compound Wellingborough CIC

Matched by exact name

Published award value: £63.3k
Awarded: 7 Sept 2026
Award ID: 4
Status: active
Identifier: GB-PPON PYBJ-3311-DTTN
Location: Wellingborough, UKF25, NN8 4NL, United Kingdom

Northampton Saints Foundation

Matched by exact name

Published award value: £50k
Awarded: 7 Sept 2026
Award ID: 5
Status: active
Identifier: GB-PPON PCNM-2951-TVTN
Location: Northampton, UKF24, NN5 5BG, United Kingdom

Delapre Abbey Preservation Trust

Matched by number

Published award value: Value not stated
Awarded: Not supplied
Contract signed: 30 Sept 2026
Award ID: 6
Status: active
Identifier: GB-COH 06005336
Location: Northampton, UKF24, NN4 8AW, United Kingdom

Athletic Elite LTD

Matched by number

Published award value: Value not stated
Awarded: Not supplied
Award ID: 7
Status: active
Identifier: GB-COH 14866381
Location: Rugby, UKG13, CV21 3PT, United Kingdom

The Compound Wellingborough CIC

Matched by number

Published award value: Value not stated
Awarded: Not supplied
Award ID: 8
Status: active
Identifier: GB-COH 12006364
Location: Wellingborough, UKF25, NN8 4NL, United Kingdom

Free 2 Talk

Matched by number

Published award value: Value not stated
Awarded: Not supplied
Award ID: 9
Status: active
Identifier: GB-COH 06620303
Location: Northampton, UKF24, NN5 7LQ, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Contract details notice on Find a TenderOpen source ↗

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id: CR202511019
Status: complete
Procurement Method: open
Procurement Method Details: Below threshold - open competition

Legal basis

Id: 2023/54
Scheme: UKPGA
Uri: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ↗

Special regime

lightTouch

Lots and requirements

Entry 1

Id: 1
Status: complete

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1

Name: The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire
Id: GB-PPON-PQZB-4253-GCQD

Identifier

Scheme: GB-PPON
Id: PQZB-4253-GCQD

Address

Street Address: Darby House ,Darby Close ,Park Farm Industrial Estate
Locality: Wellingborough
Postal Code: NN8 6GS
Country: GB
Country Name: United Kingdom
Region: UKF25

Contact

Name: The Police Fire and Crime Commissioner on behalf of the Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP)
Email: commercial@northants.police.uk

Roles

buyer

Details

Url: https://northamptonshire-opfcc.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗

Classifications

Entry 1

Scheme: UK_CA_TYPE
Id: publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Description: Public authority - sub-central government

Organisation 2

Name: Delapre Abbey Preservation Trust
Id: GB-COH-06005336

Identifier

Scheme: GB-COH
Id: 06005336

Address

Street Address: Abbey Cottage, Delapre Abbey, London Road, England,
Locality: Northampton
Postal Code: NN4 8AW
Country: GB
Country Name: United Kingdom
Region: UKF24

Contact

Email: richard.clinton@delapreabbey.org

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale: large
Vcse: No

Award information

Award 1

Id: 6
Status: active
Main Procurement Category: services

Items

Item 1

Id: 1
Related Lot: 1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1

Scheme: CPV
Id: 85312300
Description: Guidance and counselling services

Delivery locations

Entry 1

Region: UKF24
Country: GB
Country Name: United Kingdom

Suppliers

Supplier 1

Id: GB-COH-06005336
Name: Delapre Abbey Preservation Trust

Related lots

Contracts and changes

Entry 1

Id: 6
Award ID: 6
Title: The Provision of Serious Violence Duty Funding Agreements
Status: active
Has Renewal: Yes
Above Threshold: No
Date Signed: 1 Oct 2026, 00:00

Period

Starts: 1 Oct 2026, 00:00
Ends: 30 Sept 2027, 23:59
Max Extent Date: 30 Sept 2030, 23:59

Renewal

Description: 4 x 12 months optional extensions, depending on funding and performance reviews

Value

Including VAT: 49,112.56
Currency: GBP

Agreed Metrics

Entry 1

Id: 0027
Title: SVD Statutory Output metrics
Description: • Reduction in hospital admissions for assaults with a knife or sharp object • A reduction in knife and sharp object enabled serious violence recorded by the police • Homicides recorded by the police

Entry 2

Id: 0028
Title: County serious violence risks and protective factor output metrics:
Description: • Reduced offending and victimisation • Reduced involvement with statutory services • Improved attendance/improved behaviour and attainment • Improved employability  • Improved mental health and wellbeing • Improved physical health • Improved attitudes and beliefs about healthy relationships

Entry 3

Id: 0029
Title: SVD Long term outcomes:
Description: • Children and young people achieve positive outcomes • Communities feel safer • Serious violence is reduced

Documents

Entry 1

Id: 097990-2026
Document Type: contractNotice
Notice Type: UK7
Description: Contract details notice on Find a Tender
Url: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/097990-2026 ↗
Published: 16 Oct 2026, 14:11
Format: text/html

Recorded locations

Buyer location · Wellingborough · UKF25 · NN8 6GS · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

6 published notice versions reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

6 VERSIONS

051953-2026Tender notice on Find a Tender · 2 Jun 2026, 14:45
088421-2026Contract award notice on Find a Tender · 17 Sept 2026, 17:05
097990-2026Contract details notice on Find a Tender · 16 Oct 2026, 14:11
097998-2026Contract details notice on Find a Tender · 16 Oct 2026, 14:17
098011-2026Contract details notice on Find a Tender · 16 Oct 2026, 14:27
098026-2026Contract details notice on Find a Tender · 16 Oct 2026, 14:41

PROCURAAXIS AWARD ANALYSIS

Award outcome intelligence

Evidence-bound analysis of the published award appears below the official tender and award information.

ANALYSIS PREVIEW

Award intelligence at a glance

Northamptonshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner has awarded Serious Violence Duty funding for primary-prevention interventions. Five award records name FREE 2 TALK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY, DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST, ATHLETIC ELITE LTD, THE COMPOUND WELLINGBOROUGH CIC and NORTHAMPTON SAINTS FOUNDATION. A contract-details record explicitly shows a signed, active £49,112.56 contract with DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST.

Published outcome signals

Tender notice published2 June 2026Evidence: Release history: Tender notice on Find a Tender, release 051953-2026.
Award notice published17 September 2026Evidence: Release history: Contract award notice, release 088421-2026.
Contract details publication16 October 2026Evidence: Release history lists four Contract details notices on 16 October 2026; supplied contract document 097990-2026 was published at 14:11:03.

93% approved-analysis confidence9 supplier records analysed4 source limitations

SOURCE AND FRESHNESS

Traceable procurement data

Source: Find a Tender
Notice reference: 097990-2026
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-05e873
First published: 17 Sept 2026
Last checked: 16 Oct 2026, 15:59
Notice versions reviewed: 6

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HOW THIS WAS PREPARED

Approved, evidence-bound analysis

ProcuraAxis structures information found in published procurement records, checks the result for consistency and publishes only approved analysis. Confidence describes the completeness and consistency of the available source information; it is not a guarantee of eligibility or contract award.

Analysis status: Approved for publication
Analysed: 16 Oct 2026

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AWARD OUTCOME

What happened

Published outcome

The published award records show five named recipients with values totalling £376,691.56 across awards 1–5. The source also contains four further active award records (6–9), apparently associated with recipients already named; only award 6 has supplied contract details and a signed date.

Market significance

This is a local, below-threshold open competition for serious-violence prevention services in Northamptonshire, with potential optional extensions dependent on Home Office funding and performance reviews.

AWARDED SUPPLIERS AND LOTS

9 supplier records analysed

FREE 2 TALK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

99% confidence

Award 1 · Lots 1 · 94280 GBP · active award

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Award 1 is dated 8 September 2026, valued at £94,280; verified company name and number 06620303 supplied.

DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST

99% confidence

Award 2 · Lots 1 · 49112.56 GBP · active award

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Award 2 is dated 8 September 2026, valued at £49,112.56; verified company name and number 06005336 supplied.

ATHLETIC ELITE LTD

99% confidence

Award 3 · Lots 1 · 120000 GBP · active award

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Award 3 is dated 8 September 2026, valued at £120,000; verified company name and number 14866381 supplied.

THE COMPOUND WELLINGBOROUGH CIC

99% confidence

Award 4 · Lots 1 · 63299 GBP · active award

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Award 4 is dated 8 September 2026, valued at £63,299; verified company name and number 12006364 supplied.

NORTHAMPTON SAINTS FOUNDATION

99% confidence

Award 5 · Lots 1 · 50000 GBP · active award

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Award 5 is dated 8 September 2026, valued at £50,000; verified company name and number 11007826 supplied.

DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST

99% confidence

Award 6 · Lots 1 · 49112.56 GBP · active signed contract

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Award 6 names the supplier. Contract 6 is active, signed 1 October 2026, and valued at £49,112.56.

ATHLETIC ELITE LTD

96% confidence

Award 7 · Lots 1 · Unknown GBP · active award

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Supplier dataset associates ATHLETIC ELITE LTD with award 7; the award record has no value or award date.

THE COMPOUND WELLINGBOROUGH CIC

96% confidence

Award 8 · Lots 1 · Unknown GBP · active award

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Supplier dataset associates THE COMPOUND WELLINGBOROUGH CIC with award 8; the award record has no value or award date.

FREE 2 TALK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

96% confidence

Award 9 · Lots 1 · Unknown GBP · active award

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Supplier dataset associates FREE 2 TALK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY with award 9; the award record has no value or award date.

LIFECYCLE

Award or contract stage

Tender notice published

99% confidence

2 June 2026

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Release history: Tender notice on Find a Tender, release 051953-2026.

Award notice published

99% confidence

17 September 2026

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Release history: Contract award notice, release 088421-2026.

Contract details publication

98% confidence

16 October 2026

View supporting evidence

Release history lists four Contract details notices on 16 October 2026; supplied contract document 097990-2026 was published at 14:11:03.

Confirmed signed contract

99% confidence

Award/contract 6: signed 1 October 2026; active

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Contract 6 has status active and dateSigned 2026-10-01.

Other records

98% confidence

Awards 1–5 and 7–9 are active, but signing dates and contract records are not supplied for them.

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Award dataset lists active status but no signed dates; only contract 6 is included in the supplied contract data.

VALUES

Published values explained

Published values for awards 1–5

99% confidence

£376,691.56 GBP

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Sum of published award values: £94,280, £49,112.56, £120,000, £63,299 and £50,000.

Confirmed contract 6 value

99% confidence

£49,112.56 GBP gross

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Contract 6 value.amountGross is 49112.56 GBP.

Value aggregation caution

99% confidence

Do not add contract 6 to the awards 1–5 total

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Contract 6 names the same supplier and has the same £49,112.56 value as award 2, while the supplied data does not explain the relationship between the record sets.

Funding-pack ceiling

98% confidence

Up to £140,000 excluding VAT per bid

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Tender description states bids up to £140k excluding VAT would be considered.

TIMELINE

Procurement timeline

Award decisions for awards 1–5

99% confidence

8 September 2026

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Awards 1–5 each have award_date 2026-09-08.

Contract 6 start

99% confidence

1 October 2026

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Contract 6 period.startDate is 2026-10-01 and dateSigned is 2026-10-01.

Contract 6 initial end

99% confidence

30 September 2027

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Contract 6 period.endDate is 2027-09-30.

Maximum potential end

99% confidence

30 September 2030

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Contract 6 maxExtentDate is 2030-09-30.

SCOPE

What was awarded

Requirement

99% confidence

Funding contracts for serious-violence interventions in Northamptonshire.

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Tender description.

Intervention focus

98% confidence

Primary prevention under the public-health model of violence prevention; bids were to relate to six crime types in the Funding Pack.

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Tender description.

Published service classification

99% confidence

CPV 85312300 — Guidance and counselling services.

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Contract 6 item additional classification.

Delivery area

98% confidence

Northamptonshire (UKF24 supplied for the contract item).

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Contract 6 delivery address region UKF24; tender refers to Northamptonshire.

PROCEDURE

Procedure and competition

Procedure

99% confidence

Open competition, below threshold.

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Process and tender procurementMethod/Details: open; Below threshold - open competition.

Regime

99% confidence

Light touch.

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Tender specialRegime is lightTouch.

Lot structure

99% confidence

One lot (lot 1).

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Tender lists lot 1; all award records reference lot 1.

Competition data

99% confidence

Number of bids, bidder identities, evaluation scores and award rationale are unknown.

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Information not supplied in the published notice data.

CONTRACT TERMS

Published contract terms

Confirmed contract term

99% confidence

1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027 for contract 6.

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Contract 6 period.

Extension mechanism

99% confidence

Up to four optional 12-month extensions, subject to funding and performance reviews.

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Contract 6 renewal description.

Maximum duration

99% confidence

Potentially to 30 September 2030 for contract 6.

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Contract 6 maxExtentDate.

Performance measures

97% confidence

Published metrics include reductions in knife/sharp-object assaults and recorded serious violence, alongside wider outcomes for young people and communities.

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Contract 6 agreedMetrics.

COMMERCIAL VIEW

Commercial observations

Award pattern

99% confidence

Five priced award decisions were published under a single lot, with individual values ranging from £49,112.56 to £120,000.

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Awards 1–5 values and lot references.

Funding dependency

99% confidence

The buyer states that extensions beyond the initial term depend on Home Office funding decisions.

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Tender description.

Contract evidence

99% confidence

Only DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST has an explicitly supplied signed contract record; this should not be generalised to the other active awards.

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Only contract 6 is supplied and contains dateSigned.

ANALYSIS QUALITY

93%overall confidence

Confidence reflects the completeness and consistency of the published award data.

Reference: ocds-h6vhtk-05e873
Analysed: 16 Oct 2026

APPROVED AWARD ANALYSIS

BUYER CONTEXT

Buyer context

Buyer

99% confidence

The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire.

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Buyer party and process buyer_name.

Partnership context

99% confidence

Procurement is on behalf of the Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership, involving justice, health, local-authority, police and fire stakeholders.

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Tender description.

Buyer type

99% confidence

Public authority — sub-central government.

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Buyer party classification UK_CA_TYPE.

SUPPLIER CONTEXT

Supplier context

Recipient footprint

96% confidence

The named award recipients are verified companies or CICs linked in the supplied data to Northampton or Wellingborough, except ATHLETIC ELITE LTD’s company-record locality is Rugby.

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Supplier records and verified company identities.

Identity verification

99% confidence

All nine supplied award-supplier entries are verified against supplied company identities.

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supplierVerification reports verifiedCount 9 and unresolvedCount 0.

RENEWAL OUTLOOK

Renewal outlook

Estimate: earliest renewal decision point

98% confidence

Around 30 September 2027 for contract 6, if an extension is considered.

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Initial contract 6 end date is 30 September 2027; this is an estimate based only on the explicit end date, not a procurement forecast.

Extension uncertainty

99% confidence

Extensions are optional and dependent on funding and performance reviews; no renewal is guaranteed.

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Contract 6 renewal description and tender description.

DATA QUALITY

Gaps and source limitations

Duplicated or unresolved record relationship

99% confidence

Awards 6–9 appear to correspond to suppliers already present in awards 1–4, and contract 6 has the same supplier and value as award 2. The published dataset does not explain whether these are linked records, replacements or duplicates.

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Awards, supplier mappings and contract 6 data.

Missing contract details

99% confidence

Information not supplied in the published notice data for contracts corresponding to awards 1–5 and 7–9, apart from contract 6.

View supporting evidence

Only contract 6 is included in details_json.

Supplier-name variation

99% confidence

For award 9, source supplier name “Free 2 Talk” differs from the supplied verified legal name FREE 2 TALK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY; the verified legal name is used.

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Award 9 supplier record has supplier_name_mismatch true and verified company number 06620303.

Unpublished allocation detail

99% confidence

All records point to lot 1, but the lot has no published title, description or standalone value.

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Lot 1 data contains null title, description and value.

SOURCE DATA LIMITATIONS

Information not supplied in the published notice

The relationship between awards 1–5 and active awards 6–9 is not explained in the supplied source data; values are not double-counted.
Only contract 6 has supplied signed-date, term, value and renewal data. Contract status, signing and term for the other awards are unknown.
Bid volumes, scoring, reasons for selection, detailed service allocation, lot title and pricing breakdowns were not supplied.
The £140,000 figure is a bid ceiling stated in the tender description, not a confirmed individual contract value.

MARKET THEMES

Relevant award themes

COMMON QUESTIONS

About this award

Who received Serious Violence Duty Funding in Northamptonshire?

Published award records name FREE 2 TALK COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY, DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST, ATHLETIC ELITE LTD, THE COMPOUND WELLINGBOROUGH CIC and NORTHAMPTON SAINTS FOUNDATION.

What is the confirmed contract term?

The supplied signed contract for DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST runs from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027, with up to four optional 12-month extensions.

Were all published awards confirmed as signed contracts?

No. The supplied data explicitly confirms a signed contract only for contract 6 with DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST.

ProcuraAxis award analysis supplements, but does not replace, the official award notice, contract data or procurement documents. “Awarded” does not by itself prove that a contract has been signed.

Serious Violence Duty Funding

Opportunity overview

Awarded to

Classification

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Documents and notices

Published notice details

Scope, procedure and submissions

Legal basis

Special regime

Lots and requirements

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

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Address

Contact

Roles

Details

Classifications

Identifier

Address

Contact

Roles

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Award information

Items

Additional Classifications

Delivery locations

Suppliers

Related lots

Contracts and changes

Period

Renewal

Value

Agreed Metrics

Documents

Recorded locations

Notice and amendment history

Award intelligence at a glance

Published outcome signals

Traceable procurement data

Approved, evidence-bound analysis

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