The Legal Aid Agency: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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23 awarded tenders, 47 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting19 procedures · 190%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 10 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract100%(10 notices)
10 of 10 notices are Contract (100%).
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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%).
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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.
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Based on 10 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Watson Woodhouse | 4 | 17.4% | 2 | 5 | 6 Jan 2026 |
| Citizens Advice Gateshead | 4 | 17.4% | 1 | 6 | 15 Sept 2021 |
| Stephensons Solicitors LLP | 3 | 13% | 1 | 4 | — |
| The Johnson Partnership | 2 | 8.7% | 1 | 2 | 6 Jan 2026 |
| Lawstop | 2 | 8.7% | 0 | 7 | — |
| Loss Insurance and Legal Services t/a SEN Support Solicitors | 2 | 8.7% | 0 | 2 | 12 May 2021 |
| Coram Children's Legal Centre | 2 | 8.7% | 0 | 2 | 31 Mar 2021 |
| Loss Insurance and Legal Services t/a SEN Support Solicitors | 2 | 8.7% | 0 | 2 | — |
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.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| 2025 Standard Crime Contract | Multiple Providers | — | — | £180,000,000 † |
| Standard Civil 2024 Contract | Multiple Providers | — | — | £7,781,577 † |
| Procurement of Civil Legal Advice services from September 2025 | Loss Legal Services t/a SEN Support Solicitors | — | — | £1,871,167 † |
| Procurement of Civil Legal Advice services from September 2025 | Citizens Advice Gateshead | — | — | £1,700,000 † |
| Procurement of Civil Legal Advice services from September 2025 | Citizens Advice Gateshead | — | — | £1,700,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 44 of 44 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Procurement of Civil Legal Aid Services in England and Wales from April 2021.Legal services | Awarded / complete | 30 Apr 2021 | £7,200,000 |
| Procurement of Criminal Defence Direct Services in England and Wales from 1 June 2021Legal services | Awarded / complete | 23 Apr 2021 | — |
| Procurement of Civil Legal Aid Services in England and Wales from April 2021Legal services | Awarded / complete | 8 Mar 2021 | — |
| 2018 Standard Civil Contract: Discrimination Category of Law Note: Published for completeness, see description for detailsLegal services | Awarded / complete | 8 Mar 2021 | — |
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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.