--- title: "The Provision of Recruitment Services for the Government Legal Department" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-050529" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-050529" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-050529.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-050529.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "GOVERNMENT LEGAL DEPARTMENT" published: "2025-12-16" --- # The Provision of Recruitment Services for the Government Legal Department Buyer: GOVERNMENT LEGAL DEPARTMENT Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-050529 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-050529) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-050529.json) ## Summary The Government Legal Department (GLD) is inviting suppliers to bid for the provision of comprehensive recruitment services, aiming to enhance the recruitment process for over 3,400 personnel, including approximately 2,600 legal professionals. This prestigious procurement opportunity focuses on recruitment services for both legal and cross-functional roles, offering businesses a chance to partner with one of the UK's largest central government legal organisations. The procurement stage is currently in the tender update phase, following prior planning and tender activities, with the deadline for tenders on 12th January 2026, and awards expected by 19th February 2026. This contract will run for 48 months, with possible extensions, and utilises an open procedure suited to SME participation, highlighting recruitment services as the main industry category, and broadly serving locations across the UK. This tender provides substantial business growth opportunities for suppliers equipped to deliver high-quality, innovative recruitment services with expertise in legal and HR functions. Business entities capable of flexible service delivery, adept in modern recruitment technologies such as AI, and committed to diversity and inclusive hiring practices are best positioned to leverage this opportunity. With a gross contract value of roughly £11.8 million, the winning supplier will have a pivotal role in shaping legal recruitment and supporting the operational capabilities of GLD, requiring tailored attraction strategies for specialist roles, early talent recruitment, and surge capacity for high-volume campaigns, while also contributing to digital and HR system upgrades. Creative agencies specialising in media and advertising strategies supporting legal and corporate roles are encouraged to engage actively with GLD as they navigate this transformative journey. ## Notice The Government Legal Department (GLD) is pleased to launch this major opportunity to partner with one of the largest and most influential legal organisations in the United Kingdom. GLD is seeking a highly capable, innovative and collaborative supplier to deliver end-to-end recruitment services that will directly support the attraction, assessment and recruitment of outstanding legal professionals for government. This contract represents a unique opportunity to shape the future of legal recruitment across central government and to influence the capability of the UK's legal system at the heart of public service. As the UK's principal provider of legal services to central government, GLD plays a critical role in supporting the rule of law, advising on the policy agenda of the day, leading high-profile litigation, drafting and shaping legislation, and helping government departments deliver essential public services. With more than 3,400 employees-including around 2,600 solicitors and barristers-GLD is one of the largest legal organisations in the country. Our work touches every aspect of public life: from national security and international trade to employment rights, commercial agreements, public inquiries, constitutional matters and major public policy reforms. Through this procurement, GLD seeks a recruitment partner capable of delivering a consistently high-quality, flexible and responsive service that can operate across a wide range of legal and cross-functional professional roles. This includes recruitment campaigns for qualified lawyers, senior legal specialists, commercial lawyers, employment lawyers, planning lawyers, public and private law practitioners, and a wide variety of specialist roles essential to the operation of modern government. The successful supplier will also support the recruitment of early talent, including legal trainees, pupillage candidates, legal apprentices and wider early-career colleagues entering the Government Legal Profession. These early talent routes are vital to the long-term capability of GLD and to the diversity and inclusiveness of the government legal workforce. In addition to legal recruitment, the contract will include optional non-core services to support recruitment into cross-functional professional roles (such as HR, Digital, Finance and Commercial functions), Senior Civil Service (SCS) campaigns, and high-volume sifting or assessment activities where surge capacity is required. The successful supplier will therefore play an important role not only in shaping GLD's legal workforce, but also in supporting the organisation's broader operational capability and leadership pipeline. GLD is looking for a partner who shares our values and aims to deliver recruitment services of the highest quality. We are seeking suppliers who can demonstrate a commitment to excellence, innovation, equality, diversity and inclusion, and who understand the importance of building a transparent, fair and candidate-centred recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. The successful partner will be expected to provide insightful market intelligence, data-driven recommendations, skilled assessment and selection expertise, and high-quality candidate management throughout the process. This procurement also offers suppliers the opportunity to work directly with GLD on long-term strategic workforce planning. GLD is undergoing significant organisational transformation, including enhancements to digital platforms, modernisation of HR systems, and the development of a national delivery model ("A National GLD") that reflects GLD's growing footprint across the UK. Our recruitment partner will have a front-row seat in shaping how talent is identified, attracted and selected for one of the most respected legal employers in the public sector. The successful supplier will be able to work collaboratively with GLD to introduce best-practice improvements, modern recruitment technologies, AI-enabled approaches (where appropriate), refined assessments, inclusive hiring practices and evidence-based attraction strategies that resonate with the modern legal talent market. The contract term is 48 months, with the option to extend for up to 24 further months in 12-month increments. This provides suppliers with the stability and longevity to embed high-quality services, introduce meaningful innovation, and build deep relationships with the organisation. GLD values partnership working and is looking for a supplier who can act as a genuine extension of our internal recruitment team-bringing external expertise, insight and agility to complement GLD's strategic HR and operational functions. TUPE may apply to this contract. GLD will make anonymised staffing information available to shortlisted bidders to support due diligence and pricing considerations. Compliance with data protection, confidentiality requirements and the highest standards of information governance will be essential for all bidders wishing to engage with TUPE information. The successful supplier will be required to: * Deliver high-quality recruitment and assessment processes across all core legal and early talent routes * Provide targeted attraction strategies, particularly for hard-to-fill and specialist roles * Design and deliver high-quality assessments with regular analysis of adverse impact * Provide insight, MI and market intelligence to support strategic decision-making * Offer surge capacity for high-volume or urgent campaigns * Deliver optional services for cross-functional professional recruitment and Senior Civil Service roles * Operate in compliance with Cabinet Office controls, Civil Service Recruitment Principles, GLD systems and data governance requirements * Continuously improve services throughout the contract through innovation, technology, candidate experience enhancement and collaborative partnership working This is a prestigious opportunity for a supplier to work at the heart of the UK legal system and support one of the country's most respected legal organisations. We welcome bids from suppliers who can bring creativity, capability, robustness and a genuine appetite for partnership. GLD is committed to running a transparent, fair and open competition in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 and encourages all interested suppliers to engage actively, ask questions early and submit a strong, compelling and high-quality tender. To express an interest and seek all the procurement documents please request this from bids@governmentlegal.gov.uk ### Lot Information Lot 1 Options: These can be seen in the specification but include surge support. Renewal: The Authority reserves the right to extend the Contract where it is operationally necessary to ensure continuity of service, maintain stability during periods of organisational change, or secure continued delivery of high-quality recruitment support. Extensions may be exercised to accommodate fluctuations in demand, align with wider strategic workforce planning activity, support transition to new systems or organisational structures, or where the Authority considers that an extension offers the most efficient, effective and value-for-money means of meeting its requirements at that time. Any extension will be made at the Authority's discretion and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Contract and applicable procurement legislation. ### Planning Information GLD will host an event on MS Teams, to receive details of this event and to express an interest in attending please write to bids@governmentlegal.gov.uk - the event will be at 2pm on Tuesday 20th May Following the event, you are invited to make a written submission about your views on our needs. We would ask you to limit this to one document of five A4 pages not including the cover sheet to be submitted to bids@governmentlegal.gov.uk by 2pm on Tuesday 27th May After written submissions, GLD is likely to decide on next steps of its procurement options by July 2025. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/083138-2025 | | Notice type | UK4 - Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning, Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 16 Dec 2025 | | Submission deadline | 12 Jan 2026 | | Future notice date | 27 May 2025 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 May 2026 - 31 May 2030 | | Recurrence | 2029-07-01 | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £9,827,044 | | Lots value | £9,827,044 | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Active | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## 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 | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security ### Codes - 79600000 - Recruitment services ## Release History - 16 Dec 2025 at 09:43 - TenderUpdate - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/083138-2025 - 27 Nov 2025 at 15:07 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/077755-2025 - 17 Apr 2025 at 15:11 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016033-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/083138-2025 16th December 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/077755-2025 27th November 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016033-2025 17th April 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/A-8443 Bidders guide for the procurement - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/A-8445 Service Specification ## Notice URLs - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-legal-department - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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