2024 Additional Contracts for Civil Legal Aid services from 1 September 2024

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A further opportunity to tender for the 2024 Standard Civil Contract, for organisations who have not bid or have not been successful in the initial exercise has opened. The Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) is inviting Tenders to deliver the publicly funded civil legal aid services, to commence from 1 September 2024 under the 2024 Standard Civil Contract (“2024 Contract”) in the following Categories of Law: · Family · Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits · Immigration and Asylum (including work at Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs)) · Mental Health · Community Care · Claims Against Public Authorities · Clinical Negligence · Public Law · Family Mediation · Education and · Discrimination Alongside tenders for the above, applicants may also tender to deliver the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS), commencing on 1 September 2024 in Barnstaple, Torquay, Newton Abbott, Blackpool, Preston, Crewe, Lancaster, St Helens, Taunton, Yeovil and Wigan only. Successful Applicants will be required to hold a 2024 Contract which includes authorisation to conduct Housing and Debt Contract Work i.e. the delivery of legal aid advice on Housing & Debt matters that are not covered by HLPAS. Applicants must therefore tender for and subsequently obtain and hold a 2024 Contract for the delivery of Housing and Debt work at each Office from which they are bidding to deliver HLPAS. Organisations do not need to submit a response to this procurement process where they: have been notified of a successful outcome of their 2024 Standard Civil Contract Tender; and are not seeking to deliver Contract Work in additional Categories of Law and/or from additional offices/Procurement Areas. The deadline for submission is 17:00 on 22 April 2024. Late submissions will not be considered under any circumstances. It is the Applicant’s sole responsibility to ensure that it submits a Complete Tender before the Tender Deadline and ensure its Tender has been correctly completed.