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

Description

The Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) is inviting Tenders to deliver the publicly funded civil legal aid services from 1 September 2024 under the 2024 Standard Civil Contract for: • 2024 Standard Civil Contracts (“2024 Contract”) in the Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits Categories of Law; and • 2024 Standard Civil Contract Schedules for Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (“HLPAS”) The Tender Deadline is 17:00 on 25 July 2024. Due to the urgent need for contracts to be in place to allow services to commence, the timescale from launch to the deadline for submission of tenders has been set at 14 days. There is no limit to the number of 2024 Contracts in the Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits Categories of Law that may be awarded under this procurement process, however, the LAA will only award a single Schedule to deliver HLPAS in each of the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service Areas (“HLPAS Areas”). This additional procurement opportunity will be restricted to the following areas only: Barnstaple, Torquay, Newton Abbot, or Boston, Lincoln. 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 in Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits through the eTendering message board; and • are not seeking to deliver Contract Work in Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits from additional offices/Procurement Areas; and/or • do not wish to deliver HLPAS in Barnstaple, Torquay, Newton Abbot, or Boston, Lincoln. 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. It is the Applicant’s sole responsibility to ensure its Tender has been correctly completed to fully and properly represent its tender for the 2024 Contract.