Published date: 19 January 2017

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


Closing: 30 September 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Accounting, auditing and fiscal services - 79200000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£1,800,000

Procurement reference

Specialist Quality Mark from April 2017GJ

Published date

19 January 2017

Closing date

30 September 2016

Contract start date

1 April 2017

Contract end date

1 April 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other:

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Legal Aid Agency ("LAA") invited Applicants to tender for a contract to administer the LAA's Specialist Quality Mark ("SQM"), from 1 April 2017. The SQM is the LAA's organisational quality standard designed to ensure that Legal Services Providers are well run and provide good client care. The SQM gives assurance regarding the quality of advice in several ways which, whilst not direct measures of quality are fundamental to reliable delivery of a quality service and therefore are fundamentally important to the delivery of legal aid services. Compliance with a recognised quality standard (currently either the SQM Specialist Quality Mark or Lexcel, The Law Society's practice management standard) is a requirement for providers of legal services that have, or are seeking to obtain, an LAA contract to deliver publically funded legal advice services. The LAA launched the procurement process with the purpose of awarding a contract for the delivery of the SQM service from April 2017.

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Award information

Awarded date

4 January 2017

Contract start date

1 April 2017

Contract end date

1 April 2020

Total value of contract

£1,800,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Recognising Excellence Ltd

Address

Unit 3 Twigworth Court Business Centre Tewkesbury Road Gloucester Gloucestershire GL2 9PG

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Gemma Jordan

Address

102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
England

Email

civiltenders@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/legal-aid-agency