Notice Information
Notice Title
Legal Services Tender
Notice Description
This is a multi-lot tender for legal services. Lot 1. Main Panel Lot 2. Business Services Lot 3. Insurance and Commercial Litigation Lot 4. Corporate legal Services
Lot Information
Main Panel
The main panel provides the majority of the legal services required by the Utilities, on a non-exclusive basis, including without limitation: Commercial and innovation, competition and procurement law, construction, data protection, environmental, regulatory and health and safety, employment and pensions, real estate including real estate litigation and planning, regulatory prosecutions and defences of environmental regulatory offences, strategic resource options and direct procurement for customers, water industry regulation and licence and small corporate. Non-regulated business within the Severn Trent Plc group may also purchase legal services from Lot 1.
Business ServicesThis is the non-exclusive appointment of a provider of legal services to the non-regulated businesses, Severn Trent Green Power Ltd and its subsidiaries, and Severn Trent Services and its subsidiaries. Severn Trent Connect and Midlands Land Portfolio Limited may also use this panel. The range of legal services includes Commercial, Commercial Litigation, Construction Contentious and Non Contentious, Environmental Compliance, Small - Mid sized Corporate, Real Estate and Planning, Ofgem Regulatory Advice and FCA Advice, Private Water Regulations/PFI Contract Expertise. These non-regulated businesses are not subject to the Utilities Contract Regulations Act 2016
Insurance & Commercial Litigation ServicesThis lot is for commercial litigation and insurance legal work, namely the provision of insurance legal advice in relation to employers liability, motor claims, personal injury and third-party recoveries and Schedule 12 of the Water Industry Act. Commercial litigation may also be instructed under Lots 1, 2 and 4.
Corporate Legal ServicesThis appointment is for the provision of legal services to any member of the Severn Trent plc group of companies under the scope of services for this Lot 4, which may include corporate, company secretariat, tax, treasury, strategic litigation, strategic pensions, competition litigation and competition advice.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-045678
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/009291-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79100000 - Legal services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £30,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £33,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £30,000,000 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 4 Jun 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 4 Feb 20251 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Sarah Griffiths-Jones, s griffiths-jones
- Contact Email
- sarah-griffiths-jones@severntrent.co.uk, sarah.griffiths-jones@severntrent.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2477716919
Buyer Location
- Locality
- COVENTRY
- Postcode
- CV1 2LZ
- Post Town
- Coventry
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL3 North Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL34 Flintshire and Wrexham
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Wrexham
- Electoral Ward
- Ponciau
- Westminster Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
Further Information
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