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Contract award: Department for Work and Pensions - Rocket Cobol Support and Maintenance 26-29 (GBP 2,763,544.44)

UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search Authoritative source Published 21st October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Contracts Finder by Department for Work and Pensions. Procurement: Rocket Cobol Support and Maintenance 26-29. Description: Provision for Rocket COBOL Support and Maintenance. Category: services. Value: GBP 2,763,544.44 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Akhter Computers Limited.

Publication
UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search · Government/Regulator
Published
21st October 2026
Original report
contractsfinder.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography
United Kingdom
Organisations
None identified
Collected
21st October 2026 · 17:31

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Impact-Scale Specificity
Possibly the same underlying story as Volue Oy: Substation maintenance work — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.