Published date: 3 October 2024

Last edited date: 3 October 2024

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 17 October 2023, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Legal services - 79100000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

Value of contract

£7,781,577

Procurement reference

tender_383878/1411056

Published date

3 October 2024

Closing date

17 October 2023

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 September 2024

Contract end date

31 August 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

The Legal Aid Agency ("LAA") invited Tenders to deliver the publicly funded civil legal aid services, to commence on 1 September 2024 under the 2024 Standard Civil Contract ("2024 Contract") in the following Categories of Law:

· Family;
· Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits;
· Immigration and Asylum (including work at Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs));
· Mental Health;
· Community Care;
· Claims Against Public Authorities;
· Clinical Negligence;
· Public Law;
· Family Mediation;
· Education; and
· Discrimination.

Alongside tenders for the above Categories of Law, applicants were also able to tender for HLPAS, commencing on 1 September 2024. HLPAS will be delivered in 106 HLPAS Areas across England and Wales. Successful Applicants were required to hold a 2024 Contract which included a specific authorisation to conduct Housing and Debt Contract Work i.e. the delivery of legal aid advice on Housing & Debt matters that are not covered by HLPAS. Applicants must hold a 2024 Contract for the delivery of Housing and Debt work at each Office from which they bid to deliver HLPAS.

Applicants must have reviewed the following documents which set out the complete rules of the 2024 procurement process, to be read in the following order:

- Selection Questionnaire Invitation to Tender (SQ ITT);
- Award ITT;
- Category-Specific Information;
- HLPAS ITT (to tender for HLPAS work);
- HLPAS Specific Information document (to tender for HLPAS work);
- 2024 Contract; and
- Frequently Asked Questions

All Tenders had to be completed and submitted using the eTendering system. The eTendering system can be accessed either through a link on the tender pages (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-2024-contract-procurement-process) of the LAA website or directly at https://legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk

Late submissions were not considered under any circumstances.

It was the Applicant's sole responsibility to ensure that it submitted a Complete Tender before the Tender Deadline, which was 17 October 2023 at 5pm

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Procurement of the Standard Civil Contract 2024 including Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) from 1 September 2024

  • Opportunity
  • Published 13 September 2023

Links

Additional text

The outcome of the tender is published on the following links below

Award information

Awarded date

2 October 2024

Contract start date

1 September 2024

Contract end date

31 August 2025

Total value of contract

£7,781,577

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Multiple suppliers

Address

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-2024-contract-procurement-process

Reference

No reference - other

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Legal Aid Agency

Address

102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
England

Email

civiltenders@justice.gov.uk