Legal Panel for Government
Summary:
General legal advice and services for central government, including finance and complex legal services, and legal advice specific to trade and rail. Provides for a wide range of commonly needed areas of law, including contracts, negotiations, dispute resolution and litigation, real estate and corporate finance.
Description:
Legal advice services for use by Central Government and UK public sector bodies.
Providing buyers with a compliant route to market for UK Law, international trade law negotiation and disputes
This agreement will bring together the specialisms currently available under the live agreements:
The specific lot structure and specialisms are yet to be determined and will be decided following customer and supplier engagement, details of which are listed below.
This procurement may be conducted under the new public procurement regulations.
Customer engagement
We will seek to capture the needs of the public sector through 1 to 1 and group engagement events. You can register your interest by emailing our team. You will need to provide your contact details in your email.
Supplier engagement
Supplier engagement will begin March 2024 and will continue until autumn 2025, or until we are satisfied that we have fully engaged with the supply market.If you want to be involved, register your interest by emailing our team. You will need to provide your contact details in your email. In the meantime we are asking suppliers to complete a short survey.
Important links
| Prior Information Notice (PIN) | Read PIN |
| Contract Notice in Find a Tender (FTS) | Not available yet |
| Tender documents | Not available yet |
Timeline
| Activity | Estimated dates |
| Pre-market engagement | To begin February – March 2024 |
| Drafting of procurement documentation | November 2024 |
| Publication of find a tender (FTS) notice | January to February 2025 |
| Framework Award | August to September 2025 |