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The Legal Aid Agency

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

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£7.8m
Awarded17 Oct 2023
Published3 Oct 2024
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£7.8mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£8.4m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

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

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Legal Aid Agency ("LAA") invited Tenders

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:.

02

Alongside tenders for the above Categories

Alongside tenders for the above Categories of Law, applicants were also able to tender for HLPAS, commencing on 1 September 2024.

03

Successful Applicants were required to hold

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.

04

Applicants must hold a 2024 Contract

Applicants must hold a 2024 Contract for the delivery of Housing and Debt work at each Office from which they bid to deliver HLPAS.

05

Applicants must have reviewed the following documents

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:.

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