Notice Information
Notice Title
Online Legal Subscription (2025-2026)
Notice Description
TfL Legal require an intuitive, easy to use, specialist legal online subscription, that is comprehensive and provide up-to-date legal news, legal precedents and drafting assistance, know-how, transactional analysis, online publications, and market intelligence, a large database of case law, legislation, news, journals, legal commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials for lawyers. The online legal subscription service provides a service for the lawyers to ask ad hoc legal questions and receive responses from specialist lawyers. This requirement is also for the required TfL online legal books
Procurement Information
We consider the justification for this direct award to be compliant with the condition that 'there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.' Nonetheless, we remain committed to undertaking further market engagement during the contract term to assess possible alternatives as well as the feasibility of conducting a competitive procurement exercise upon contract expiry.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0597e8
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062673-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK7 - Contract Details Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Direct
- Procurement Method Details
- Direct award
- 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
79980000 - Subscription services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £120,177 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- £120,177 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 7 Oct 20254 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 10 Sep 20255 months ago
- Contract Period
- 23 Sep 2025 - 1 Sep 2026 6-12 months
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- TRANSPORT FOR LONDON
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- E20 1JN
- Post Town
- East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI41 Hackney and Newham
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Newham
- Electoral Ward
- Stratford Olympic Park
- Westminster Constituency
- Stratford and Bow
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062673-2025
7th October 2025 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055629-2025
11th September 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055531-2025
10th September 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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