Local Land Charges Programme

Following Royal Assent in February 2015, Land Registry will become the body responsible for providing a Local Land Charge service for England.

Local Land Charges records, currently maintained by each individual Local Authority, are statutory, historic and fairly static, containing records of property charges which currently exist (e.g. tree preservation orders, listed building status).

Currently, each of the 326 Local Authorities across England have their own processes for maintaining a register of the existence of the Local Land Charges that affect land and property within their jurisdiction.

These ‘notice’ registers are made up of paper records, microfiche, digital records, or a hybrid of record types.

This Prior Information Notice is to highlight to the market that to transition these records from the 326 Local Authorities, Land Registry intends over the next 12 months to be procuring services in two key areas: 1.

Strategic Partner (Lot 1 in Annex B) will be procured through a single OJEU procurement, currently anticipated to be an Open procedure.

The Strategic Partner will support Land Registry throughout the programme, bringing in capacity and capability across a range of important disciplines, including Programme management (including Delivery Milestones, overall delivery performance reporting and programme resourcing resilience), Supplier management, Procurement, Financial management, and the Provision of specialist LLC Advice and support with the LLC Full Business Case.

They will work with Land Registry to initially procure, and then subsequently manage, the Digitisation and Import suppliers and to a lesser extent the LLC Register build supplier which will be procured under an existing framework.

2.

Digitisation and Import (Lot 2 in Annex B) of existing LLC records from all Local Authorities (be they paper, microfiche, digital or hybrid) to the LLC Register and will consist of multiple contract lots which will be procured through an OJEU procedure.

It is currently anticipated that this will be procurement through a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation process due to the greater complexity of the requirement and uncertainty over the scale of effort required.

Suppliers will be able to bid for one or more lots consisting of Local Authorities.

Note: This PIN is for information only not a call for competition which will issued in due course.