--- title: "Additional Procurement of the Standard Civil Contract 2024 including Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) from 1 September 2024" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-25d68fc3-c63e-4c7c-b45e-c091fc8ae2a3" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-25d68fc3-c63e-4c7c-b45e-c091fc8ae2a3" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-25d68fc3-c63e-4c7c-b45e-c091fc8ae2a3.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-25d68fc3-c63e-4c7c-b45e-c091fc8ae2a3.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "THE LEGAL AID AGENCY" published: "2024-03-18" --- # Additional Procurement of the Standard Civil Contract 2024 including Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) from 1 September 2024 Buyer: THE LEGAL AID AGENCY Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-25d68fc3-c63e-4c7c-b45e-c091fc8ae2a3 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-25d68fc3-c63e-4c7c-b45e-c091fc8ae2a3) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-25d68fc3-c63e-4c7c-b45e-c091fc8ae2a3.json) ## Summary The Legal Aid Agency invites tenders for the Additional Procurement of the Standard Civil Contract 2024, including the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) starting from 1 September 2024. The procurement process encompasses various categories of law such as Family, Housing and Debt, Immigration and Asylum, Mental Health, and others. The contract work is set to commence around 1 September 2024. Tender submissions must be completed using the eTendering system before the Tender Deadline of 22 April 2024 at 17:00 BST. This tender opportunity offers a chance for organisations to deliver legal aid services under the 2024 contract, regardless of current legal aid provider status. Businesses well-suited to compete include legal service providers experienced in areas like Family Law, Housing and Debt, Immigration, Mental Health, and other legal domains. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are encouraged to participate in this open procedure below threshold procurement process. ## Notice 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"). This is an additional procurement exercise, and supplemental to that launched on 13 September 2023. Providers do not need to submit a response to this procurement process in the following circumstances: - those who have been notified of a successful outcome of their 2024 Standard Civil Tender through the eTendering message board; and - those who are not seeking to deliver Contract Work in additional Categories of Law and/or from additional offices/Procurement Areas The LAA intends to award contract work under this process to commence on or around 1 September 2024, however, it cannot guarantee this date and the actual date contract work may commence could be later. This exercise will cover 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 Categories of Law, applicants may also tender to deliver the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS). HLPAS contract work awarded under this exercise will commence as soon as possible after 1 September 2024. This opportunity will be restricted to the following areas only: - Barnstaple, Torquay & Newton Abbott - Blackpool, Preston - Crewe - Lancaster - St Helens - Taunton, Yeovil - Wigan All organisations that meet the minimum contract requirements can tender to deliver services under a 2024 contract. You do not need to be a current legal aid provider to tender for this opportunity. All organisations that successfully tender will be awarded a 2024 contract and there is no limit to the number of 2024 contracts that may be awarded under this process. Applicants must review the following documents which set out the complete rules of the additional 2024 procurement process and should be read in the following order: - Selection Questionnaire Invitation to Tender (SQ ITT ADD); - Award ITT ADD; - Category-Specific Information; - HLPAS ITT ADD (to tender for HLPAS work); - HLPAS Specific Information ADD document (to tender for HLPAS work); - 2024 Contract; and - Frequently Asked Questions. All Tenders must be completed and submitted using the eTendering system, accessed through: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-2024-contract-procurement-process or https://legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk Late submissions will not be considered under any circumstances. It is the Applicant's sole responsibility to ensure it submits a Complete Tender before the Tender Deadline and ensure its Tender has been correctly completed to fully and properly represent its tender for the 2024 Contract. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/88d19af8-32f2-4293-b7e9-424590150101 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure (below threshold) | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 18 Mar 2024 | | Submission deadline | 22 Apr 2024 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Aug 2024 - 31 Aug 2025 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | THE LEGAL AID AGENCY | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South West London | | Postcode | SW1H 9AJ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West | | ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London | | Local authority | Westminster | | Electoral ward | St James's | | Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster | | Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England), TLL Wales | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security ### Codes - 79100000 - Legal services ## Release History - 18 Mar 2024 at 11:24 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/88d19af8-32f2-4293-b7e9-424590150101 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/88d19af8-32f2-4293-b7e9-424590150101 18th March 2024 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-2024-contract-procurement-process Standard Civil Contract 2024 including Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) Tender documentation ## Notice URLs - https://legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/legal-aid-agency ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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