Crown Commercial Service has released more details
about its new Legal Services Marketplace - due to be awarded in
2018 and estimated to be worth £650 million.
The Legal Services Marketplace will enable organisations
including NHS Trusts, schools, universities, local authorities
and charities to procure expert legal advice from a diverse range
of small, medium and large suppliers in dozens of specialisms.
CCS is currently developing the new commercial solution, and will
be engaging further with suppliers and customers in the coming
weeks.
The fourth ‘wheel’ of the Legal Services commercial vehicle
The new panel of suppliers will join the three legal panels
awarded earlier in 2017; General Legal Advice Services, Rail
Legal Services, and Finance and Highly Complex Transactions-
which are exclusively for the use of Central Government
departments, their executive agencies and other specified Central
Government bodies.
Central Government departments will be able to use the new Legal
Services Marketplace for work worth less than £20,000 in total.
Simplified bid packs
The Marketplace will make use of CCS’s new, simplified bid pack
for suppliers.
The pack consists of fewer, shorter tender documents and sets out
all the information in one place and in Plain English. The new
pack also reduces terms and conditions, only including those
which directly apply to the goods or service being purchased.
CCS worked with partners including the CBI, Federation of Small
Businesses, techUK and the Association of Bid and Proposal
Management Professionals to design the new pack, which cuts the
amount of tender documentation that suppliers need to complete.
Find out more
CCS will be hosting supplier engagement sessions in November. If
you would like to attend one of these sessions, please register
by expressing your interest via the Legal Services
Marketplace PIN
To follow developments with the Legal Services
Marketplace, visit the CCS pipeline
pages.
