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title: "Life Chances Fund Data Platform Maintenance Service"
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buyer: "DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT"
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# Life Chances Fund Data Platform Maintenance Service

Buyer: DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d49bf496-2eb0-4176-bfdd-987c21d26db9

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## Summary

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport procured IT support services for the Life Chances Fund Data Platform. The requirement covered ongoing platform maintenance and data archive services, supporting the continued operation and preservation of the platform’s data. This is a services contract within the broad IT services, software, internet and support category (CPV 72000000). Delivery was associated with London, at the Department’s 100 Parliament Street location. The work is relevant to suppliers that maintain digital platforms, provide technical support and manage structured data archives. It also suits small and medium-sized enterprises, indicating that the requirement was accessible to businesses with focused platform support and data-management capabilities rather than only to large national IT providers.

This procurement has been awarded and the tender is complete. It used a selective procedure as a call-off from a framework agreement. The submission deadline was 28 July 2026, and the contract was awarded on that date to Xansium Consulting Limited. The awarded value was £12,000. The contract period ran from 29 July 2026 to 7 August 2026. The selected supplier was an active award recipient for the full requirement. The process therefore demonstrates a short, defined piece of platform maintenance and data archiving work procured through an existing framework route, with the outcome based on the buyer’s evaluation of suppliers under that call-off process.

For future work of this type, credible suppliers will need practical experience maintaining live data platforms and preserving or archiving data reliably. Relevant capability includes diagnosing and resolving platform issues, supporting software and internet-based services, maintaining data integrity, and handling archive processes securely and systematically. Businesses should be able to provide focused technical support over a short delivery period and work within a public-sector framework call-off route. The awarded supplier was a small or medium-sized consulting business, showing that a specialist SME can meet this buyer’s requirement without the scale of a major systems integrator. The opportunity is therefore most relevant to compact IT consultancies with platform support and data-management expertise.

## Notice

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) requires a supplier to provide platform maintenance and data archive services.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/62afcb16-f0bd-490d-9b24-91afa242386d |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Call-off from a framework agreement |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 28 Jul 2026 |
| Contract period | 29 Jul 2026 - 7 Aug 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £12,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £12,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Postcode area | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1A 2BQ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | XANSIUM CONSULTING LIMITED |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 28 Aug 2026 at 11:37 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/62afcb16-f0bd-490d-9b24-91afa242386d

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/62afcb16-f0bd-490d-9b24-91afa242386d
  28th August 2026 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder

## Provenance

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