The Legal Aid Agency: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 10 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract100%(10 notices)
    10 of 10 notices are Contract (100%).
Procedure route
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  • Open70%(7 notices)
    7 of 10 notices are Open (70%).
  • Route not published30%(3 notices)
    3 of 10 notices are Route not published (30%).
Bids per lot, few lots
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Based on 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.

18moderate · n=40% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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Based on 10 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

17 of 10 notices amended

Who wins here
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All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Watson Woodhouseframework/DPS on 1417.4%256 Jan 2026
Citizens Advice Gateshead417.4%1615 Sept 2021
Stephensons Solicitors LLP313%14—
The Johnson Partnership28.7%126 Jan 2026
Lawstopframework/DPS on 128.7%07—
Loss Insurance and Legal Services t/a SEN Support Solicitors28.7%0212 May 2021
Coram Children's Legal Centre28.7%0231 Mar 2021
Loss Insurance and Legal Services t/a SEN Support Solicitors28.7%02—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 30% of 23 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 47 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£196mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 8 of 11 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 98%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£1.7m middle valuerobust · n=8Middle half £1.4m–£3.3m; 3 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.

Recent procedures

Latest 44 of 44 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
7781577Legal servicesAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
2025 Standard Crime Contract tender outcomeLegal servicesAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026£1,800,000,000
Provision of Contact Centre Services to the Legal Aid AgencyCall centrePlanned29 Sept 2026£24,400,000
2027 Peer Reviewer Procurement ProcessInternal audit servicesOpen29 May 2026£5,000,000
Peer ReviewerInternal audit servicesPlanned20 May 2026£5,000,000
Procurement of Criminal Defence Direct Services from 4 May 20262 lotsLegal servicesAwarded / complete6 Jan 2026£2,360,000
Procurement of Civil Legal Advice services from September 20253 lotsLegal servicesAwarded / complete3 Jul 2025—
CDD Pipeline NoticeLegal servicesPlanned23 May 2025£2,360,000
Specialist Quality Mark Auditing Services AgreementLegal servicesPlanned23 May 2025£2,375,000
Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service 202511 lotsLegal servicesOpen21 Feb 2025—
2025 Standard Crime Contract Stage 2Legal servicesOpen23 Oct 2024£1,800,000,000
7781577107 lotsLegal servicesAwarded / complete3 Oct 2024—
2025 Standard Crime Contract Stage 1Legal servicesOpen17 Sept 2024£1,800,000,000
Additional Procurement of the Standard Civil Contract 2024 including Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) from 1 September 20242 lotsLegal servicesOpen11 Jul 2024—
Provision of Legal Aid Agency Civil Debt Recovery Enforcement Solicitor ServicesBailiff servicesAwarded / complete27 Jun 2024—
Additional Procurement of the Standard Civil Contract 2024 including Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) from 1 September 20247 lotsLegal servicesOpen18 Mar 2024—
7781577Legal servicesAwarded / complete19 Dec 2023—
Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service from August 2023104 lotsLegal servicesAwarded / complete4 Aug 2023£2,150,000
Procurement of Housing and Debt Services from 1 October 2023Legal servicesOpen2 Aug 2023—
Further Procurement of the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Services from September 202311 lotsLegal servicesOpen11 Apr 2023—

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Contracts Finder adds 28 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data
  • One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
  • Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
  • Contract end dates. 66 of 91 published contracts have an end date; 7 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.