Legal services framework awarded
Government Procurement Service (GPS) has announced the award of a new Legal Services framework.
Government Procurement Service (GPS) has announced the award of a new Legal Services framework which replaces the existing Legal Services and LitCat frameworks.
The new single cross- government framework was developed in close collaboration with Government Legal Service (GLS) and will drive further savings and improve efficiency in the provision of legal services. It has been developed to meet the needs of the whole of the public sector.
The new Legal Services framework provides access to high quality professional legal services, whilst delivering best value for the taxpayer. It covers eight categories of legal service provision:
- Lot 1 - IT, telecoms, media and e-commerce
- Lot 2 - property and estates
- Lot 3 - employment and pensions
- Lot 4 - general corporate, including tax insolvencyGeneral
- Lot 5 - finance and financial regulation
- Lot 6 - general commercial
- Lot 7 - general litigation and legal services
- Lot 8 - major or complex projects
These categories were developed by GPS and GLS to offer ready access to a wide range of firms - from niche practices to full service commercial firms - including those with the ability to handle complex and high value projects.
The value of the framework is estimated at up to £250million over a period of up to four years. Legal services procurement is subject to strict spending controls.
| Categories | Firms |
|---|---|
| IT, telecomms, media and e-commerce | Addleshaw Goddard |
| Bond Pearce LLP | |
| Burges Salmon LLP | |
| DAC Beachcroft LLP | |
| DLA Piper UK LLP | |
| Eversheds LLP | |
| Sharpe Pritchard | |
| Property and estates | Browne Jacobson LLP |
| Davitt Jones Bould | |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | |
| Shoosmiths | |
| Veale Wasbrough Vizards | |
| Walker Morris | |
| Wragge & Co LLP | |
| Employment and pensions | Addleshaw Goddard |
| Burges Salmon LLP | |
| Dickinson Dees LLP | |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | |
| Nabarro LLP | |
| Weightmans LLP | |
| Wragge & Co LLP | |
| General corporate, including tax insolvency | Ashfords LLP |
| Burges Salmon LLP | |
| Burness Paull & Williamsons LLP | |
| DLA Piper UK LLP | |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | |
| Herbert Smith LLP | |
| Mills & Reeve LLP | |
| Pinsent Masons LLP | |
| Wragge & Co LLP | |
| Finance and financial regulation | Addleshaw Goddard |
| Allen & Overy | |
| Burges Salmon LLP | |
| Mills & Reeve LLP | |
| Nabarro LLP | |
| Pinsent Masons LLP | |
| Simmons & Simmons LLP | |
| Slaughter and May | |
| Squire Sanders (UK) LLP | |
| General commercial | Addleshaw Goddard |
| Ashfords LLP | |
| Berwin Leighton Paisner | |
| Bond Pearce LLP | |
| Bristows | |
| Burges Salmon LLP | |
| Capsticks Solicitors LLP | |
| DLA Piper UK LLP | |
| Eversheds LLP | |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | |
| Foot Anstey LLP | |
| Hempsons | |
| Maclay Murray & Spens LLP | |
| MDY Legal (formerly CA Legal) | |
| Mills & Reeve LLP | |
| Morgan Cole | |
| Sharpe Pritchard | |
| Stephenson Harwood | |
| Trowers & Hamlins LLP | |
| Wragge & Co LLP | |
| General litigation and legal services | Ashfords LLP |
| Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP | |
| Bevan Brittan | |
| Burges Salmon LLP | |
| Burness Paull & Williamsons LLP | |
| Browne Jacobson LLP | |
| Cripps Harries Hall LLP | |
| Dickinson Dees LLP | |
| Eversheds LLP | |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | |
| Keoghs LLP | |
| Nabarro LLP | |
| Parabis Law LLP T/A Plexus Law | |
| Pinsent Masons LLP | |
| Weightmans LLP | |
| Major or complex projects | Addleshaw Goddard |
| Arthur Cox | |
| Ashurst LLP | |
| Bevan Brittan | |
| Bircham Dyson Bell LLP | |
| Bond Pearce LLP | |
| Browne Jacobson LLP | |
| Burges Salmon LLP | |
| Capsticks Solicitors LLP | |
| DLA Piper UK LLP | |
| Dundas & Wilson | |
| Eversheds LLP | |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP | |
| Hempsons | |
| Mills & Reeve LLP | |
| Nabarro LLP | |
| Pinsent Masons LLP | |
| Simmons & Simmons LLP | |
| Slaughter and May | |
| SNR Denton UK | |
| TLT LLP | |
| Trowers & Hamlins LLP | |
| Wragge & Co LLP |