---
title: "Legal Subscription Services"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04535c"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "GOVERNMENT LEGAL DEPARTMENT"
published: "2024-04-18"
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# Legal Subscription Services

Buyer: GOVERNMENT LEGAL DEPARTMENT  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04535c

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## Summary

The Government Legal Department, a National agency based in London, United Kingdom, has recently awarded a contract for Legal Subscription Services through a limited procurement method without the publication of a contract notice. The contract, with a value of £8,600,000, was signed on April 18, 2024, with Thomson Reuters Professional UK Limited as the supplier. The procurement process was initiated through a tender and involved subscription services mainly focused on online legal resources.

This procurement opportunity for Legal Subscription Services presents a lucrative prospect for businesses operating in the services industry, particularly those offering legal database services. The procurement stage has progressed to the award phase, demonstrating the selection of Thomson Reuters Professional UK Limited as the exclusive supplier due to their unique content and technical capabilities. Businesses specialising in online legal resource information services or companies with expertise in providing proprietary services similar to Westlaw Edge and Practical Law may find this tender conducive to expanding their market presence and enhancing revenue streams.

## Notice

An online legal subscription service.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

An online legal subscription service, which provides large and sophisticated databases of legal information (e.g. case law) for the UK and abroad.

### Procurement Information

The Government Legal Department ("the Contracting Authority") is intending to enter into a contract with Thomson Reuters Professional UK Limited ("TR") for the provision of online legal resource information services. In summary, TR provides access to an online legal database containing unique content that the Contracting Authority requires. This content can only be made available from the source publisher i.e. TR. Further, Westlaw Edge and Practical Law are proprietary services which contain unique content only published by TR. The purpose of this VEAT notice is to provide sufficient notice of the intention to award a four year contract to TR, in accordance with Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) and 32(b)(iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR"). Having reviewed its requirements for this contract, the Contracting Authority has concluded that an award to TR is permissible under Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) and (iii) of the PCR because TR (i) is the only supplier in the market that can provide these technical services to the required specification and (ii) has protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights. The Contracting Authority is satisfied that no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not as a result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. The Contracting Authority shall enter into the contract with TR ten days after the date on which this VEAT notice is published.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012683-2024 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Negotiated without publication of a contract notice |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 18 Apr 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 17 Apr 2024 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £8,600,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | GOVERNMENT LEGAL DEPARTMENT |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1H 9GL |
| 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 | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | THOMSON REUTERS PROFESSIONAL |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 79980000 - Subscription services

## Release History

- 18 Apr 2024 at 13:17 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012683-2024

## Notice URLs

- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-legal-department

## Provenance

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