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Published 20 Feb 2025, 15:53 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Agora Legal - Flexible Purchasing System for Legal Services

Official notice

Authority: Bristol City Council (Local council)

27 lotsServices
Published estimate£1,000,000,000total for 27 lots
Submissions closed 20 Mar 2025
Lots 27see the lot list below

What is being bought27 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

Constellia acting on behalf of Bristol City Council is establishing Agora Legal a Flexible Purchasing System for the procurement of legal services.

The system will be available for use for all UK Public Sector Bodies/Contracting Authorities and Utilities.

The system consists of 27 lots which are further divided by region.

The system will be open to new entrants at any point during it's lifetime.

CPV: Legal services

Lots and requirements (27)Procurement structure

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Showing the first 25 of 27 published lots; the full list is in the JSON and Markdown mirrors of this notice. 27 lots · no lot values published.

Lot #1Cross Category

Advice, assistance and support covering a wide range legal solutions including drafting, preparation, crisis management, dispute resolution, litigation and where necessary collaborating across specialisms.

Delivery: UK
Lot #2Business and Corporate Services

Including but not limited to all aspects of business services, corporate matters, competition, charities, social enterprises and finance.

Delivery: UK
Lot #3Health and Social Care

Including but not limited to all aspects of healthcare, and social care.

Delivery: UK
Lot #4Adult Care and/or Court of Protection

All aspects of Adult Social Care

Delivery: UK
Lot #5Education

Including all aspects of law related to education.

Delivery: UK
Lot #6Local Authority Education

Including all aspects of law related to Local Authority Education.

Delivery: UK
Lot #7Planning and Environmental

Including all planning, environmental and highway matters.

Delivery: UK
Lot #8Employment and Pensions

Including all aspects of employment and pensions law and guidance and Employment Tribunal representation.

Delivery: UK
Lot #9Regulatory and Compliance

Including all aspects of regulatory and or compliance.

Delivery: UK
Lot #10Local Authority Licensing

All aspects of Local Authority licensing

Delivery: UK
Lot #11Local Authority Prosecutions

All aspects of Local Authority prosecutions

Delivery: UK
Lot #12Commercial

Advice on all aspects of commercial law including contract law, warranties, indemnities, structures of transactions, what is acceptable to the market etc

Delivery: UK
Lot #13Public Procurement

Including all aspects of public procurement law and associated contracts and public procurement litigation.

Delivery: UK
Lot #14Commercial Litigation

All aspects of commercial litigation

Delivery: UK
Lot #15Construction, regeneration and infrastructure projects

Including all aspects of construction, engineering, energy, regeneration, transport, infrastructure and major projects.

Delivery: UK
Lot #16Property and real estate

Including all aspects of property, residential and commercial landlord and tenant issues, real estate, housing, valuations and development and compulsory purchase advice.

Delivery: UK
Lot #17Housing Disrepair

All aspects of law related to housing disrepair

Delivery: UK
Lot #18Local Authority Housing

All aspects of law related to local authority housing

Delivery: UK
Lot #19Property Litigation

All aspects of law related to property litigation

Delivery: UK
Lot #20Private rented sector housing regulation

All aspects of law related to private sector rented housing regulation

Delivery: UK
Lot #21Public Sector and government

Including but not limited to all aspects and issues involving public sector organisations including judicial review, consultation, local authority powers etc.

Delivery: UK
Lot #22Technology

Including all aspects of technology law and AI.

Delivery: UK
Lot #23Immigration

Including all aspects of immigration law.

Delivery: UK
Lot #24Judicial Review

Any aspects of law that may be required as part of a judicial review process.

Delivery: UK
Lot #25Anti social behaviour actions and powers

All aspects of anti-social behaviour actions and powers.

Delivery: UK

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored

Establishment of a Flexible Purchasing System, all suppliers meeting the selection criteria will be admitted to the system. The system will remain open to new entrants, or existing entrants to allow for new lots for it's duration.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Closed
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
20 Feb 2025, 15:53 GMT
Last source update
20 Feb 2025, 15:53 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-006356
Classification (CPV)
Legal services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e55a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Language: EN
Submission deadline
20 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

20 Feb 2025 → 20 Mar 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    20 Feb 2025, 15:53 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    20 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Bristol City Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Bristol, UKContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.