Published date: 9 April 2024

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


Closing: 23 February 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000

Location of contract

TW9 4DU

Value of contract

£0 to £96,000

Procurement reference

TA595

Published date

9 April 2024

Closing date

23 February 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

8 March 2024

Contract end date

31 December 2024

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?

No

Description

The National Archives has developed a variety of different tools for working with legal information through our work delivering the legislation.gov.uk, Lawmaker and Find Case Law services.

The umbrella term for these tools is the Legal Document Toolkit. There are specific tools which can securely receive, represent, store, transform, query, analyse, enrich, revise and publish legal documents of different types.

The tools in the Toolkit have been developed using a variety of different technologies over the last 15-20 years. Some are quite recent (developed in the last 2-3 years), some are much older. The tools are centred on LegalDocML, the international standard for legal documents. This provides the core data model around which many of the more recent tools (Lawmaker and Find Case Law) are based. Our adoption of an international standard means the toolkit potentially has appeal in overseas markets.

Most of the tools have been developed with a very specific task in mind but we think they potentially have wider application and use. Our hopes are highest with Lawmaker, a browser based drafting and amendment workflow management tool, and the parser we have developed for converting Court Judgments from Word, for Find Case Law.

We are trying to work out how best to exploit the tools in the Toolkit commercially. We think there is both a domestic and international market for our tools - but we don't know which tools or what markets to focus on. We are regularly approached by people wanting to use some of these tools. The AI Revolution is opening up new opportunities as "Big Law" wakes up to the power of data. Many legal businesses rightly want to stay in control of their information assets but need better information management capabilities. Our Toolkit could help.

In this project we will develop our understanding of the potential market, learning more about potential users and their needs, and evaluating the different business models we might use.

The project has a budget of £32,000 (inc. VAT) per lot.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

PATHFINDER PROJECT - LEGAL DOCUMENT TOOLKIT

  • Opportunity
  • Published 21 December 2023

Attachments

Award information

Awarded date

21 March 2024

Contract start date

14 April 2024

Contract end date

31 December 2024

Total value of contract

£80,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Venturebright ltd

Address

95 Mortimer Street
London
W1W 7ST

Reference

Companies House number: 08659999

Value of contract

£80,000

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

KEW
RICHMOND
TW94DU
England

Email

procurement@nationalarchives.gov.uk