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# 2025 Standard Crime Contract Stage 2

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-standard-crime-contract-stage-2-ocds-h6vhtk-04b06e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Legal Aid Agency: "2025 Standard Crime Contract Stage 2". Published status: active. Published Value: £1,800,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 30 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST. Published submission portal: legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [The Legal Aid Agency](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-legal-aid-agency-gov-ea556)
- **Published Value:** £1,800,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 30 April 2025 at 23:59 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Legal services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04b06e`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-standard-crime-contract-stage-2-ocds-h6vhtk-04b06e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegalaid.bravosolution.co.uk%2Fweb%2Flogin.shtml)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2025-standard-crime-contract-stage-2-ocds-h6vhtk-04b06e#participate

## Description
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) is inviting Applicants to submit a Tender for a 2025 Standard Crime Contract (“Crime Contract”) to deliver publicly funded criminal legal aid services from 1 October 2025.

        
Applicants wishing to deliver criminal legal aid services under a Crime Contract must submit a response to the SQ for 2025 Standard Crime Contracts - Stage 2 and the 2025 Standard Crime Contract ITT - Stage 2.

        
This application period opens on 23 October 2024. The LAA intends that the application period will remain open until on, or around, 30 September 2034, subject to the right of early termination.  The second stage of the process will open on 23 October 2024 and close on 30 April 2025 and is for those who wish there contract to commence on 1 October 2025 and to be able to join duty rotas that commence in January 2026. The third stage will open on 1 May 2025 and will close on, or around, 30 September 2034.

        
The deadline for submitting a Tender in the first stage is 23:59 on 30 April 2025.

        
You must read the Application Guide (AG) document for this procurement process before submitting your Tender.

        
The AG and supporting documents can be downloaded from GOV.UK: Crime Contract 2025 Tender - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, UKK, UKL

- **Description:** The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) is inviting Applicants to submit a Tender for a 2025 Standard Crime Contract (“Crime Contract”) to deliver publicly funded criminal legal aid services from 1 October 2025.

          
Applicants wishing to deliver criminal ...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F034276-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-10-23T09:59:35.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T14:32:11.206Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04b06e