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title: "Legal Services for South Norfolk Council"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-077e69"
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# Legal Services for South Norfolk Council

Buyer: South Norfolk Council  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-077e69

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## Summary

South Norfolk Council procured a broad range of legal services, with East Suffolk Council managing the procurement. The work covers contracts, corporate and criminal law, debt recovery, disputes and litigation, employment, environmental and housing law, data protection and information technology, intellectual property, insurance, planning, property, procurement, tax and construction law. It also includes legal risk and policy advice, grants, health and safety, finance and investment, outsourcing, public inquiries and inquests, projects and public-private partnerships, and sustainable and green finance. The services are for South Norfolk Council, with delivery identified in the United Kingdom. This is a wide-ranging external legal services requirement rather than a single specialist instruction.

The procurement is complete and the contract was awarded to Birketts LLP on 18 September 2026. The award is valued at £2 million excluding VAT (£2.4 million including VAT). It runs from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2028, with two optional one-year extensions at South Norfolk Council’s discretion, allowing the period to extend to 30 September 2030. The contract is a single lot and was awarded through a selective route under a framework agreement. The award record identifies no further evaluation criteria. The contract award milestone is scheduled for 1 October 2026.

For a future requirement of this breadth, a credible competitor would need to provide a dependable, multi-disciplinary legal service spanning public-sector advice and disputes as well as corporate, commercial, property, employment, regulatory and specialist areas. The scope indicates a need to handle both day-to-day advice and complex matters, including litigation, public inquiries, procurement, planning, finance and construction. Suppliers would be better placed to compete if they can demonstrate capacity across these disciplines, coordinate specialist teams and support a local authority across a sustained service relationship. Birketts LLP’s selection shows that a large law firm secured this broad council requirement through a framework route; the work is therefore most relevant to firms with comparable breadth, public-sector capability and experience delivering legal services to local government.

## Notice

Legal Services for South Norfolk Council. Legal services include but are not limited to: Contracts, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Debt Recovery, Dispute Resolution and Litigation Law, Emerging Policy and Legal Risk Advisory, Employment Law, Environmental Law, Finance and Investment, Food, Rural and Environmental Affairs, Grants, Health and Safety, Housing Law, Information Law including Data Protection Law, Information Technology Law, Insurance and Reinsurance, Intellectual Property Law, Outsourcing, Planning Law, Projects/PPP, Property and Real Estate Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Public Inquiries - Support to Participants and Inquests, Public Law, Public Law Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Public Procurement Law, Real Estate and Real Estate Finance, Supporting Public Inquiries, Sustainable Finance/ Green Finance, Tax Law, Construction Law

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/092739-2026 |
| Notice type | UK6 - Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Award under framework |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 18 Sep 2026 |
| Contract period | 1 Oct 2026 - 30 Sep 2028 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £2,000,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | South Norfolk Council |
| Locality | NORWICH |
| Postcode area | Norwich |
| Postcode | NR7 0WF |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH5 Norfolk |
| ITL 3 | TLH51 Norwich and East Norfolk |
| Local authority | Broadland |
| Electoral ward | Brundall |
| Westminster constituency | Broadland and Fakenham |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Birketts LLP |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79100000 - Legal services

## Release History

- 1 Oct 2026 at 11:15 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/092739-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/092739-2026
  1st October 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- http://www.birketts.co.uk
- http://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h6vhtk-0503d3
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.southnorfolkandbroadland.gov.uk/

## Provenance

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