Published date: 29 July 2019

This notice was replaced on 13 December 2019

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 13 December 2019)

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Contract summary

Industry

  • Publications - 22120000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£32,400,000

Procurement reference

tender_209429/779473

Published date

29 July 2019

Closing date

29 August 2019

Contract start date

1 April 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Ministry of Justice and other participating departments require access to a comprehensive range of legal information, including legislation, case law, commentary and current awareness. This information is required in a variety of formations including online, print and eBook.

This Online Legal Resources Framework content will be divided into 2 Lots.
Lot 1: jLIS specific requirements, (based on number of users).
Lot 2: GLD specific requirements, (based on number of licences needed).

The following online content from across the range of legal publishers is required. The Authority expects to source different elements of this information from a range of Suppliers:

- Legislation - original and consolidated
- Case law, law reports and transcripts - including archives back to 13th century
- Current awareness services which enable judges to keep up to date with changes to the law
- Journals
- Commentary - textbooks and loose-leaf - current editions and supplements
- Practice area tools
- Parliamentary information

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Supply of Legal Publications and Online Legal Resources

  • Early engagement
  • Published 29 November 2018

Additional text

The Authority reserves the right to reject all or any of the bids for the competition and not to award a contract to any bidder, without any liability on its part. Nothing in this prior information notice shall generate any contractual obligations prior to the signature of a contract following a competition.

Transparency:

HM Government requires that tender documentation issued by government departments for contracts exceeding 10 000 GBP over the life of the contract are published online (www.gov.uk/contracts-finder) for the public. The resulting contract shall also be published. The Authority may use its discretion to redact information to protect key commercial interest or on prescribed grounds. Therefore, bidders who wish information not to be published, if successful, should secure agreements with the Authority prior to submission. These could cover key commercial interest, trade secrets and commercial interests which would be prejudiced by publication, all following the test in Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1178/commercial-interests-section-43-foia-guidance.pdf).

Only documentation related to the award will be published. The prescribed grounds for redaction are:
(a) national security;
(b) personal data;
(c) information protected by intellectual property rights;
(d) information which is not in the public interest to disclose (following tests under the Freedom of Information Act 2000);
(e) third party confidential information;
(f) IT security; and
(g) Prevention of fraud.

Freedom of information (FOI):

The Freedom of Information Act came fully into force in 2005. If any organisation considers that any information supplied by them is either commercially sensitive or confidential in nature, this should be highlighted and the reasons for its sensitivities specified. In such cases the relevant material will in response to FOI requests be examined in the light of exemptions provided for in the Act.

About the buyer

Address

5 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
England

Email

CCMDlegalpublications@justice.gov.uk