Contracts Finder notice
Great British Energy - External Legal Services 2026-2028
Authority: Great British Energy
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupport is required from the Contractors who must have extensive experience in the renewables sector, across the full range of technologies, initially supporting both investments and project development and the design and delivery of programmes for the delivery of grant and debt funding. The Contractors must be able to provide the full range of complementary advice and transaction services, including regulatory, permissions, planning, consent.
In addition, given the small size of the GBE in-house legal team, Contractors must be capable of supporting GBE's core needs be that in the context of a transaction or in a BAU setting. This will include employment, public law, procurement, FOIA/EIR, subsidy control, competition, commercial, employment and litigation. Further details are included with the Contracts.
These Contracts were awarded following the direct award process under the Government Commercial Agency's Legal Panel for Government RM6360, Lots 1 and 2.
The budget for the programme is £2million to run from 2026 - 2028. Each Contract has maximum value of this total programme spend, but there is no commitment to spend any value with any Contractor.
Activity will be allocated to a Contractor based upon lot, conflicts of interest and experience in this area required.
Each Contract has an initial phase until 30/06/2027, with an option to extend until 30/06/2028.
Additional information:
Redacted contracts
Published procurement details
- Framework cited in notice
- Legal Panel for Government · RM6360
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- tender_534071/1595501
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- No
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- AB10 1BJ; British Oversea Territories; Channel Islands; Europe; Isle of Man; Rest of the World; United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision1 Jul 2026
- Contract starts1 Jul 2026
- Notice published20 Jul 2026
- Contract ends30 Jun 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- Great British EnergyContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Sharpe Pritchard LLPSupplier
- Identifier
- OC378650 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
- Burges Salmon LLPSupplier
- Identifier
- OC307212 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
- Ashurst Perkins Coie UK LLPSupplier
- Identifier
- OC330252 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-9ae93648-e550-4aee-b1ff-3e208b78a20c-2026-07-20T13:08:19+01:00
- Published
- 20 Jul 2026
- Latest update
- 20 Jul 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-9ae93648-e550-4aee-b1ff-3e208b78a20c
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-9ae93648-e550-4aee-b1ff-3e208b78a20c-1