Legal Panel for Public Sector
Summary:
Offers the public sector organisations and third sector access to a comprehensive list of advisory and transactional legal services and a diverse range of legal services providers across England, Wales and Scotland. Central Government Departments will be able to access the agreement by exception.
Description:
This agreement will offer full legal support to the public sector including Health, Education bodies, Local and Regional Government organisations, Infrastructure, Emergency Services and Third Sector organisations.
The agreement will cover various legal specialisms including but not limited to Costs Law, Projects, Litigation, Property, Public Procurement, Commercial, Contracts, Employment, Infrastructure, Energy, PFI/PPP, Transport, Rail, Education, Corporate, Health, Healthcare and Social Care, Child Law, and Social Housing.
The lot structure is yet to be finalised, we are currently considering a Lot structure which consists of:
Lot 1a – Full Legal Service Provision for all Public Sector
Lot 1b – Full Legal Service Provision for Local Government and Local Communities
Lot 1c – Full Legal Service Provision for Health and Social Care
Lot 2 – Focused Legal Support
Lot 3 – Litigation and Disputes
Lot 4 – Property, Real Estate and Construction
Lot 5 – Major Projects and Complex Advice including PFI/ PPP
Lot 6 – Transport and Planning
Lot 7 – Costs Lawyer Services
The agreement will provide flexible call off terms with the ability to award without competition and via competitive tendering as well as applying a range of Alternative Fee Arrangements where they suit the customer requirements.
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 info@crowncommercial.gov.uk with the subject line ‘RM6374 Customer Engagement’.
Our first group customer engagement session was held in April and our next sessions is planned for 14 October 2025 at 10:30am. To register for the buyer engagement session in October please click here.
Supplier engagement
Supplier engagement began in March 2025 and continues until the end of the year, or until we are satisfied that we have fully engaged with the supply market. We have finished several workshop sessions which focused on different themes. You can watch the recordings for each session here:
- watch the RM6374 Pricing workshop
- watch the RM6374 Social value workshop
- watch the RM6374 PA23 & AWOC workshop
- watch the RM6374 AI workshop
We have scheduled 2 additional group supplier engagement sessions, one on 11 September 2025 at 10am and one on 7 October 2025 at 1pm. The content of the sessions will be the same and will focus on the terms and conditions of the framework.
Register for the RM6374 supplier engagement session on 11 September.
Register for the RM6374 supplier engagement session on 7 October.
If you are interested in a 1 to 1 engagement session, contact info@crowncommercial.gov.uk, and include “RM6374 1:1” in the subject line.
Important links
| Planned procurement notice | Read planned procurement notice |
| Preliminary market engagement notice | Read PMEN |
| Prior Information Notice (PIN) | Read PIN |
Timeline
| Activity | Estimated dates |
| Pre-market engagement | Ongoing Autumn to Winter 2025 |
| Drafting of procurement documentation | Winter 2025 |
| Publication of find a tender (FTS) notice | February 2026 |
| Framework Award | August 2026 |