Contracts Finder notice
Debt Recovery and Litigation Services
Authority: Department for Business and Trade
CPV: Legal services (79100000)
Published contract value£400,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 7 Dec 2027
Awarded to Shakespeare Martineau LLP
Contract starts 8 Dec 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Contract is for the provision of Debt Recovery and Litigation Services for the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
The Contract shall be for a period of 24 months with the option to extend by
two further periods of 12 months (2+1+1).
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- tender_486169/1539923
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- SW1A 2BL; British Oversea Territories; Channel Islands; Europe; Isle of Man; Rest of the World; United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Contract starts8 Dec 2025
- Award decision10 Dec 2025
- Notice published2 Feb 2026
- Contract ends7 Dec 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Department for Business and TradeContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Shakespeare Martineau LLPSupplier
- Identifier
- OC319029 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-7fa8f3ae-7073-4308-97e4-c1272868e389-2026-02-02T11:30:45Z
- Published
- 2 Feb 2026
- Latest update
- 2 Feb 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-7fa8f3ae-7073-4308-97e4-c1272868e389
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-7fa8f3ae-7073-4308-97e4-c1272868e389-1