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ClosedStage · contract

The Legal Aid Agency

SQM Services from 1 October 2022

Business ServicesCPV 79200000
Value£2.5m
Deadline10 Mar 2022
Published1 Jul 2022
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 1 Jul 2022ClosedCloses 10 Mar 2022
Contract value in context
£2.5mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£2.7m

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The brief

The Legal Aid Agency ("LAA") invited Applicants to tender for a concession contract ("Contract") to administer the LAA's Specialist Quality Mark ("SQM"), from 1 October 2022.

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 the SQM, or equivalent standard (e.g.

Lexcel), is a requirement for Legal Services Providers that have, or are seeking to have, a contract with the LAA.

The LAA intends to enter into contract with one (1) organisation to administer the LAA's SQM under a licence.

On the LAA's behalf, the Licensee will provide the SQM Services, which include auditing and assessing Legal Services Providers that apply for SQM accreditation.

This notice confirms the outcome of that procurement.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The SQM is the LAA's organisational quality

The SQM is the LAA's organisational quality standard designed to ensure that Legal Services Providers are well run and provide good client care.

02

On the LAA's behalf, the Licensee

On the LAA's behalf, the Licensee will provide the SQM Services, which include auditing and assessing Legal Services Providers that apply for SQM accreditation.

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