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title: "Online Legal Subscription (2025-2026)"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0597e8"
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# Online Legal Subscription (2025-2026)

Buyer: TRANSPORT FOR LONDON  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0597e8

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## Summary

Transport for London has completed the procurement process for an "Online Legal Subscription" service for the period of 2025-2026, awarded to Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Limited. The procurement was conducted as a direct award, justified by the absence of reasonable alternatives, though further market engagement is planned during the contract term. The contract, valued at approximately £144,212.64 gross, was signed on 24th September 2025 and spans from 24th September 2025 to 1st September 2026, primarily aimed at providing up-to-date legal resources and services to TfL's legal team. This process is categorised under services within the UK public sector.

This tender offers a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in comprehensive legal information systems, particularly those that can integrate with specialised legal and technical infrastructures. While this direct award minimises immediate competition, it hints at potential future competitive exercises, highlighting opportunities for firms to prepare and present alternative solutions. Businesses equipped with innovative legal tech solutions or those specialising in legal information management services have a strategic opportunity to engage in future or extended offerings related to similar procurement contracts.

## Notice

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.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062673-2025 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 7 Oct 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 10 Sep 2025 |
| Contract period | 23 Sep 2025 - 1 Sep 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £120,177 |
| Contracts value | £120,177 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | TRANSPORT FOR LONDON |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | East London |
| Postcode | E20 1JN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI41 Hackney and Newham |
| Local authority | Newham |
| Electoral ward | Stratford Olympic Park |
| Westminster constituency | Stratford and Bow |
| 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

- 7 Oct 2025 at 07:15 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062673-2025
- 11 Sep 2025 at 07:41 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055629-2025
- 10 Sep 2025 at 15:17 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055531-2025

## 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

## Notice URLs

- http://www.tr.com
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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