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If the CLG is ready to move towards voluntary strike-off, Coddan can help you assess the appropriate dissolution route and prepare the required work. See Coddan's CLG voluntary dissolution service for professional support with voluntary strike-off and DS01 preparation, while Companies House retains responsibility for the statutory strike-off process.
£92.00+VATVoluntaryDissolution™ Recommended for 1
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Buy Now CLG VoluntaryDissolution™ — DS01 Voluntary Strike-Off Application for £92 plus VAT. You provide accurate company details, the directors' decision and the information required from the authorised signatories. Coddan prepares the application, checks the supplied particulars and submits DS01 within the agreed scope. We also explain the requirement to send a copy of the application to the legally protected recipients, but the company and its directors remain responsible for completing those notifications unless a separate service expressly transfers that work to Coddan. The £92 package price includes the applicable Companies House filing fee; VAT applies only to Coddan's professional-fee element. Submitting DS01 does not itself dissolve the company or guarantee that no objection will arise. Companies House controls the registration process and publishes the applicable Gazette notices. This package is the shortest appropriate route where the CLG is genuinely |
£162.00+VATAssistedDissolution™ Recommended for 2
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Buy Now CLG AssistedDissolution™ — Secretarial Closure Preparation and DS01 Filing for £162 plus VAT. You provide the company records and information needed to explain its activities, directors, members or guarantors, outstanding obligations and intended closure. Coddan reviews the material supplied, identifies relevant readiness issues, provides practical guidance, prepares DS01 when the company appears ready and monitors the Companies House strike-off process within the package scope. Guidance includes the applicable notification duties, but does not automatically include serving every required recipient. The £162 package price includes the applicable Companies House filing fee; VAT applies only to Coddan's professional-fee element. Final accounts, tax returns, VAT or PAYE closure, substantive HMRC work, asset transfers, creditor negotiations and specialist legal, insolvency, property or RTM work are not included. If an objection, rejected filing or unresolved complication changes the job, use the separate CLG dissolution problem-solving route. Coddan cannot guarantee a |
£362.00+VATCLG FullDissolution™ Recommended for 3
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Buy Now CLG FullDissolution™ — Coordinated CLG Closure and DS01 Support for £362 plus VAT. You provide the company's corporate, financial and operational information together with relevant records and professional contacts. Coddan reviews the disclosed closure position, coordinates the applicable work, provides guidance concerning remaining funds and assets, prepares and submits DS01 when appropriate, and monitors Companies House and Gazette developments. The £362 package price includes the applicable Companies House filing fee; VAT applies only to Coddan's professional-fee element. Accounting and tax coordination does not automatically include preparing final accounts, tax returns or specialist advice unless that work is separately agreed. Substantive legal or insolvency work, creditor negotiations, contested objections, conveyancing and complex asset transfers remain outside the package. Remaining CLG property must be addressed according to the company's articles, objects, restrictions and circumstances; it must not be treated mechanically as a shareholder distribution. Where unresolved complications dominate the matter, Coddan can route it to specialist CLG dissolution support rather than presenting this as a |
£508.00+VATSpecialistDissolution™ Recommended for 4
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Buy Now CLG SpecialistDissolution™ — Specialist CLG Closure and DS01 Support from £508 plus VAT. You provide the constitutional, membership, property, management, financial and closure information relevant to the organisation. Coddan identifies matters requiring attention before dissolution, coordinates the company-secretarial work within scope, considers remaining funds and assets, and prepares and files DS01 only where voluntary strike-off remains appropriate. The price starts from £508 plus VAT and includes the applicable Companies House filing fee; VAT applies only to Coddan's professional-fee element. Additional work is quoted where the company's circumstances exceed the defined package scope. Specialist legal, conveyancing, charity, tax, insolvency, service-charge, disputed-property or complex asset work is not automatically included and may require another professional. A charitable CLG should also follow the relevant charitable-company dissolution requirements. Companies House, creditors, regulators and other bodies retain their own decisions; this package provides |
Start with the present position
The company is solvent and closure is intended, but directors still need to check the constitution, authority, members, filings, liabilities, assets, notices or ongoing correspondence. This is the route owned by this page.
If the relevant affairs have been concluded, the company appears eligible and the required decision and information are ready, use the ordinary CLG voluntary-dissolution service.
If an application has been rejected, an objection has been raised, filings are materially outstanding, status is unclear or corrective work is needed, use the CLG dissolution support and problem-solving route.
Voluntary strike-off is not a substitute for insolvency proceedings. If the company cannot pay its debts on time, its liabilities exceed its assets, litigation is active, or a creditor arrangement or insolvency process applies, get the appropriate insolvency or legal advice before pursuing form DS01.
Choose the right destination first
The appropriate route depends first on whether closure is permanent, whether the company is solvent, whether creditor pressure exists and whether its remaining assets or restrictions can be dealt with properly before dissolution. Do not order a DS01 service until the destination matches the company’s actual position.
The CLG is solvent, you intend to close it permanently, it is not facing liquidation or a disqualifying creditor arrangement, and its remaining affairs can be dealt with before dissolution. This is the setting for a voluntary strike off service for a Company Limited by Guarantee.
If the organisation has paused its activity, may resume its purpose, needs to preserve its name or corporate existence, or still has obligations that make dissolution premature, keeping the company registered may be more appropriate. Accounts and Confirmation Statements continue while it remains registered.
A solvent CLG with substantial, restricted or difficult assets, unresolved rights, or circumstances that do not suit administrative strike-off may need advice about a Members’ Voluntary Liquidation. A Members’ Voluntary Liquidation is a formal winding-up route involving a licensed insolvency practitioner. The treatment of any surplus must follow the CLG’s articles, objects, status and restrictions—not generic shareholder-distribution assumptions.
If the company cannot pay debts when due, liabilities exceed assets, creditors are pursuing payment, or a statutory demand, winding-up petition, creditor arrangement or insolvency process exists or is threatened, stop the ordinary DS01 route and obtain advice from a licensed insolvency practitioner.
Coddan’s boundary: Coddan can review the disclosed company position, organise the corporate records, identify an apparent route boundary and coordinate an appropriate handover. Coddan does not act as liquidator and does not replace advice or an appointment that must be provided by a licensed insolvency practitioner.
Related dissolution route
If you need broader support with closing a Company Limited by Guarantee, the dedicated CLG dissolution support route gives you another place to review the practical requirements and identify what still needs to be done.
View CLG Dissolution SupportBefore choosing voluntary strike-off
Before a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) enters the voluntary strike-off route, Coddan reviews five connected matters to establish whether the company appears ready, what practical work remains and which service or alternative destination fits its actual position. This pre-dissolution review is designed to support checking CLG eligibility for voluntary strike off before any application is submitted.
Decide whether the CLG should close permanently or whether dormancy would make more sense if the organisation may be needed again. A dissolved company cannot simply be reactivated; restoration is a separate formal route. Understand the position after dissolution.
Before dissolution, identify bank balances, refunds, deposits, physical property, intellectual property, contractual rights and digital assets. For a non-profit CLG, asset treatment may require asset-lock clearance, constitutional review or transfer planning. Bank access ends and remaining company property may pass as bona vacantia. Review the asset controls.
Check whether debts, claims, creditor pressure or possible insolvency change the appropriate route. Resolving outstanding liabilities before closing a guarantee company is essential: voluntary strike-off must not be used instead of properly addressing liabilities or obtaining insolvency advice. This is also central to preventing creditor objections during non-profit dissolution where the company can properly address the underlying issue before applying. Check eligibility and readiness.
Remaining assets are not shareholder distributions. Their proper treatment may depend on the articles, objects, charitable status, funding conditions, property arrangements and applicable restrictions. Where an asset lock applies, asset-lock clearance and any compliant transfer should be established before closure. Check the specialist CLG controls.
Form DS01 does not complete outstanding accounts, tax, payroll, contracts, filings, notifications or regulator matters. Establish the remaining closure tail
before selecting a filing service, including any need for final accounts and tax clearance for CLG dissolution with the company’s accountant or tax adviser. Identify the work still outstanding.
Coddan’s service action: Coddan reviews the information provided, identifies the apparent route boundaries, records the company-secretarial work remaining and connects the CLG to the appropriate dissolution service package or another professional destination where voluntary strike-off does not fit.
Practical closure support
If the company needs more than a straightforward strike-off filing, this dedicated support route helps identify the practical dissolution work still required, including additional preparation or problem-solving.
View Company Limited by Guarantee Dissolution Support
The professional work behind the filing
For a solvent Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) considering voluntary strike-off, the practical value of professional secretarial support is not simply submitting a DS01. It is having the information, notifications and closure steps organised around the application, with the agreed work clearly separated from matters that remain the directors’ responsibility or require another professional.
Coddan takes responsibility for the agreed company-secretarial and corporate-administration work within its confirmed service scope. The scope is established from the CLG’s actual position and selected service rather than from an assumption that every dissolution requires the same work.
This is a specialist company-secretarial service rather than a second formation journey. An existing CLG can instruct Coddan for a defined dissolution or closure task even if Coddan did not incorporate the company. A single agreed task does not, by itself, require an annual secretarial package or the appointment of Coddan as company secretary.
Where the work requires a defined scope, you can ask for the service to be confirmed in writing before documents are prepared or a filing is submitted. The written scope can identify the information to be supplied, the approvals required, the work Coddan will perform and the outcome expected within the agreed service.
01. Prepare the closure file
Coddan reviews the information supplied about the CLG, its constitution, directors and members, recent activity, filings, liabilities, assets and other relevant closure matters. This helps identify what is ready for the chosen route and what still needs attention before a voluntary strike-off application is made.
02. Coordinate the DS01 stage
Where included in the selected service, Coddan can assist with DS01 preparation and submission, the supporting company-secretarial work and the application record. Professional preparation does not remove the statutory eligibility requirements, and Companies House remains responsible for considering the application.
03. Coordinate notifications and follow-up
Within the agreed scope, Coddan can help organise the record of required stakeholder notifications and relevant post-submission steps, including the Gazette stage, responses to issues raised and withdrawal considerations if circumstances change. The company and directors remain responsible for notifications and decisions that the law places on them.
04. Identify issues before they become delays
A checking process can bring outstanding liabilities, assets, eligibility questions or other unresolved matters into view before the application proceeds. Where an issue requires legal, tax, charity, property or licensed insolvency advice, Coddan can identify that boundary rather than presenting company-secretarial support as a substitute for specialist advice.
What remains with the company and its directors: the customer must provide complete and accurate information, make the required corporate decisions, confirm that the CLG is eligible for the chosen route, deal with its liabilities and assets, and provide the information needed for notifications. An individual remains responsible for completing any identity-verification requirement that applies to them. Companies House and other authorities retain their own decisions and powers.
The result is a more organised closure process, clearer documentation and better visibility of outstanding matters—not a guarantee that Companies House will accept the application or that the company will ultimately be dissolved.
Trust through the work produced: Coddan’s role is evidenced by the company-specific review, action schedule, decision records where included, submitted application record, notification evidence, monitoring record and final public-status evidence created under the selected package—not by an unsupported claim that the service is “trusted”.
Professional-status boundary: this dissolution service is delivered through Coddan’s company-secretarial and corporate-administration function. Coddan CPM Limited is supervised by HM Revenue & Customs for anti-money-laundering purposes as a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP). Its separate Companies House registration as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) is also verifiable. This provides an appropriate basis for authorised corporate service provider guidance for company closure where an applicable Companies House process is involved, but it does not transfer the company’s or directors’ statutory responsibilities, guarantee acceptance or amount to government endorsement.
For professional referrers and overseas advisers
Accountants, lawyers, formation agents and other professional advisers can instruct Coddan where a client needs agreed CLG company-secretarial work in the UK. The instruction remains client-specific: the referring professional supplies the authority and information available to them, Coddan performs the agreed work using its own systems and credentials, and the client or authorised company representative remains responsible for corporate decisions and approvals.
Where the client’s circumstances require a defined UK company-secretarial scope, you can request a professional instruction review before work begins.
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Where the company’s actual position does not clearly match one of the four published routes, do not select a package by price alone.
Ask Coddan to determine the appropriate service scope before ordering.
The application or company record already contains a problem, or material corrective work is needed before the route can proceed.
Use an insolvency route where the company cannot pay its debts; use restoration where dissolution has already occurred; and obtain charity, property, tax or legal advice where those controls decide the next step.
Organisation before instrument
Form DS01 is the instrument used to apply for voluntary strike-off. It does not decide whether the CLG should close, identify who has authority, settle unfinished obligations, deal with remaining assets or notify every affected person. Those matters belong to the company and its directors before and during the application.
The practical starting question is therefore not simply Who will file the form?
It is: what must be established, decided, completed and evidenced so that this particular CLG can move towards an orderly solvent dissolution?
Identify the company, its purpose, constitution, people involved, status and reason for closing.
Record authority and decisions; review filings, tax, contracts, liabilities, funds, property and records.
Coordinate DS01 where appropriate, send the required copies and preserve evidence of notification.
Track the public record and Gazette, respond to change, confirm dissolution and retain the right records.
Service output—closure map: Coddan converts the supplied closure position into an action schedule, identifies who controls each task and establishes whether the company can remain on the ordinary solvent strike-off route.
The correct company and people
A Company Limited by Guarantee may be a straightforward non-profit membership organisation, a charitable company, a right-to-manage company, a resident-management company or another property-related body. That label alone does not reveal what must happen before dissolution.
The guarantee is not a shareholding: a CLG member ordinarily undertakes to contribute the amount stated in the company’s constitution if the company is wound up in circumstances where that undertaking applies. The guarantee does not itself create shares or an automatic entitlement to remaining funds or property. The articles, membership records, charitable or other restrictions and the actual closure route must be checked.
A member’s constitutional guarantee is also different from any separate personal guarantee given to a bank, landlord, supplier or another creditor. A personal guarantee may continue to have its own consequences and should be referred for appropriate legal or insolvency advice where relevant.
authorised company representative rule: “authorised company representative” is useful when referring collectively to people and bodies involved in the closure, but it does not erase their distinct capacities. Managing guarantor and director duties during company closure requires those capacities to remain clear: a director makes and implements board decisions; a member or guarantor may have constitutional decision rights; a creditor receives protection and notice; a charity trustee or corporate-member representative may have additional responsibilities.
Authority before action
The directors should establish who has authority to decide that the CLG should stop operating, conclude its affairs and pursue voluntary strike-off. The answer depends on company law, the articles, the board’s composition, the membership arrangements and any additional charitable, contractual or property controls.
Confirm the directors in office, quorum, notice and voting requirements, conflicts and the practical decisions required to wind down the company’s affairs.
Determine whether the articles, governing arrangements or the proposed transactions require member involvement or approval. Do not assume either that a member resolution is always necessary or that it is never necessary.
Where a member or guarantor is a body corporate, establish who can act for it and what authority or representative record is needed.
Minutes and written resolutions should record the actual decision, the material information considered, the authority relied upon, the intended closure work and who is responsible for each action. Templates should follow the company’s facts; the facts should not be forced into an unsuitable template.
Service output—authority record: Where included in the selected package, Coddan reviews the public and supplied company records, maps the people involved and prepares the board or member records required by the company’s actual constitution and decisions. The directors and members confirm the facts, make the decisions and give the authority.
Eligibility is not the same as readiness
The majority of the directors must make the voluntary strike-off application. If there are two directors, both must apply; if there is one director, that director may apply. Before any submission, the company’s position must also be tested against the statutory restrictions, including the rules on recent trading, name changes, certain disposals, insolvency proceedings and creditor arrangements.
In the three months before the application, the company must not have traded or carried on business, changed its name, or carried out prohibited activities. Activities necessary to decide upon or apply for strike-off, conclude the company’s affairs or comply with a statutory requirement may be permitted. The actual chronology should be checked rather than reduced to a generic “dormant” label.
Voluntary strike-off must not be used as a substitute for paying or properly addressing creditors, tax liabilities or insolvency. Stop the ordinary DS01 route if the company cannot pay debts when due, liabilities exceed assets, creditor demands remain unresolved, or a statutory demand, unsatisfied judgment, winding-up petition, creditor arrangement or insolvency process exists or is threatened.
Director control when financial difficulty appears: do not continue with an ordinary dissolution package merely because DS01 appears cheaper or simpler. Obtain advice from a licensed insolvency practitioner where insolvency or material creditor pressure may affect the route. Coddan can assemble the relevant corporate record and coordinate a handover, but cannot make the insolvency determination or act as liquidator.
Readiness check: a company can appear eligible under the three-month rules and still be practically unready because it has unresolved tax, accounts, creditors, contracts, refunds, assets, regulator matters or incomplete internal authority. The company-secretarial task is to distinguish those two questions.
If Companies House has already started a compulsory strike-off process, establish why it was started and what you, the directors, creditors or regulators need to do. That is not the same route as a solvent company making its own voluntary application, and material filing or status problems belong in the CLG dissolution problem-solving service.
Identity verification is a separate Companies House requirement: where a director or other relevant individual is required to verify their identity, that individual remains responsible for completing the verification and using their Companies House personal code when required. This should not be presented as a separate DS01 eligibility test: the current Companies House guidance ties directors’ personal codes to requirements such as the next Confirmation Statement, while the strike-off application has its own statutory eligibility and notification rules.
Clear the remaining closure work
Closing activity does not itself close every corporate, tax, employment or contractual position. The directors need a working schedule of what is outstanding, who controls it and whether it must be completed, settled, terminated, transferred or referred before DS01 is pursued.
Establish: whether Confirmation Statements, annual accounts, officer details, registered-office information or other particulars are outstanding or inaccurate.
Coddan’s part: identify the company-secretarial filing or correction work, complete the actions included in the selected package, and route disputed or complicated records to the separate problem-solving service.
Establish: Corporation Tax, VAT, PAYE, payroll, subcontractor, refund and other tax positions that remain relevant to the closure.
Coddan’s part: organise the relevant closure information and coordinate with your accountant or an appropriate tax professional where the selected package includes coordination. This can support handling final accounts and tax clearance for CLG dissolution, but substantive accounting and tax work remains separate unless agreed.
Establish: whether employees, workers, pension arrangements, beneficiaries, volunteers or contractors are affected.
Coddan’s part: place the identified notification and administrative actions into the closure schedule and coordinate the included company-secretarial communications; employment, pension and regulated advice remains with the relevant professional.
Establish: debts, contingent claims, landlords, tenants, suppliers, lenders, grant-makers, notice periods, termination terms and refunds.
Coddan’s part: record the disclosed obligations and evidence needed before filing and coordinate the agreed administrative steps. Creditor negotiations, disputes and substantive contractual advice are separate.
Establish: subscriptions, grants, donations, service charges, direct debits, deposits and recurring payments that remain active.
Coddan’s part: include the necessary reconciliation, cancellation, transfer or affected-party communication within the coordinated work schedule, while the company completes actions requiring its own banking or contractual authority.
Outstanding filings do not all have the same legal or practical effect. A voluntary strike-off application does not correct inaccurate records or resolve third-party claims. The appropriate route is the one that deals with the work the company actually needs, without adding unnecessary steps.
Service output—readiness schedule: Coddan records the relevant activity chronology, creates a coordinated outstanding-work schedule, carries out the company-secretarial actions included in the selected package, and identifies what you, your accountant or another adviser must complete.
Give company funds and rights a clear destination
A CLG does not ordinarily have shareholders simply because it is a registered company. Remaining property must therefore not be described or handled as a generic shareholder distribution. The correct treatment depends on the organisation and the rights or restrictions attached to the asset.
Do not leave property behind: when a company is dissolved, money remaining in its bank account and other company property may pass to the Crown as bona vacantia. Bank access is lost on dissolution. Asset identification and appropriate treatment belong before dissolution, with legal, charity, property, tax, accounting or insolvency advice used where the decision falls outside company-secretarial administration.
Same company form, different controls
Companies House dissolution and charity closure are connected but separate. Where a charitable CLG is being closed, statutory asset allocation to another eligible charity may need to be considered before strike-off, subject to the governing document and applicable restrictions. The trustees should follow the governing document, involve members where required, settle the charity’s affairs and deal correctly with remaining funds, restricted property, permanent endowment, designated land, special trusts and grant conditions.
A charitable company is first removed from the Companies House register through the appropriate company-law route. The Charity Commission for England and Wales must then be told that the charitable company has closed; Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own charity regulators. Filing DS01 alone does not complete every charitable or HMRC responsibility.
A RTM company or another property-related CLG may still hold management functions, contracts, service-charge money, records, insurance arrangements, property interests and duties affecting members, leaseholders, freeholders, agents or suppliers.
The wish of current directors to stop acting is not by itself evidence that the company can be dissolved. Replacement management, control of records and funds, leasehold arrangements and affected-party rights should be established first. Substantial property or legal questions should be referred to an appropriate property specialist or solicitor.
Keep official correspondence working
The company continues to exist until formal dissolution. Its registered office and official correspondence arrangements must therefore remain suitable while decisions, tax matters, creditor communications, Companies House notices and Gazette developments are still capable of affecting the route.
Application plus statutory communication
Where voluntary strike-off remains the appropriate route, the application should use the company’s correct particulars and the required director authority. This DS01 preparation and submission for a non-profit CLG is only one stage; notifying interested parties during CLG voluntary strike off is a separate statutory duty, and the seven-day notification period runs from the date the application is made.
Within seven days after applying, a copy of the application must be sent to the relevant persons, including. These are core statutory obligations before dissolving a guarantee company and form the practical stakeholder notification protocol for closing a non-profit company. Evidence should be recorded as part of the closure file:
The duty continues: if a person becomes a director, member, creditor, employee or pension-fund manager or trustee after the application and before dissolution or withdrawal, the copy must be sent within seven days of that person acquiring the relevant status. Evidence of posting or delivery should be retained.
Service output—application and notification file: Coddan prepares or coordinates DS01, creates the statutory notification schedule and retains the submission, acknowledgement and delivery evidence included in the selected package.
The application is not the finish line
If Companies House accepts the application, it places it on the public register, sends notices and publishes a proposed strike-off notice in the Gazette for the company’s jurisdiction. For England and Wales, London Gazette notice monitoring for CLG voluntary dissolution is part of the practical closure workflow; the applicable Gazette depends on the company’s jurisdiction. An interested party may object. If there is no reason to delay, the Registrar may strike the company off not less than two months after publication of that notice; dissolution occurs when a further Gazette notice is published. The timing is therefore not simply a fixed period from the DS01 submission date.
Track the company record, registered-office correspondence and the London, Edinburgh or Belfast Gazette as applicable. This post-submission monitoring and dissolution confirmation support helps distinguish an accepted application from the later legal event of dissolution.
An objection may expose an unpaid creditor, tax matter, continuing contract, incomplete filing or other unresolved issue. Creditor and guarantor objections during strike off need to be understood and addressed on their merits. Coddan can provide administrative objection-resolution support within the agreed scope, but does not provide legal defence or determine the validity of a creditor claim. Move the matter to the problem-solving route rather than repeatedly submitting the same application.
The application must be withdrawn immediately if the company changes its mind or no longer meets the strike-off criteria. Record the changed circumstance, withdrawal and any renewed closure plan. This is why withdrawing a DS01 application if company circumstances change must remain part of the closure control process.
No transferred decisions: Coddan can coordinate information, documents, filing and monitoring within the agreed scope. Coddan cannot require Companies House to accept an application, prevent a lawful objection, control a creditor or regulator, or determine the date on which the Registrar dissolves the company.
Confirm the final closure
Do not assume the company has been dissolved because correspondence has stopped. Confirm that the final Gazette notice has been published and that the Companies House record shows the company as dissolved. A paused application, an unmonitored objection or the absence of recent correspondence is not proof of dissolution.
Record-retention periods vary by record and circumstance. GOV.UK guidance says business documents should generally be kept for seven years after strike-off; Charity Commission guidance requires charity accounts, books and records to be retained for at least six years from the end of the financial year in which they were made. Longer periods or different controls may apply.
Service output—monitored closure record: Where monitoring is included, Coddan records the Companies House and Gazette outcome, alerts you to an objection or withdrawal requirement, and completes the dissolution record with the final public evidence. Restoration or property-recovery work is a separate destination.
If the company’s position matches one of the published package routes, use the corresponding online order form above. Coddan will request the information required for that route, review the company’s disclosed position and carry out the work included in the selected package. If the route is uncertain, request a scope review first; any work outside the selected package is identified separately.
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