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title: "External Legal Services (Solicitors - England & Wales)"
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# External Legal Services (Solicitors - England & Wales)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/external-legal-services-solicitors-england-wales-ocds-h6vhtk-03a2da). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** General Medical Council (GMC): "External Legal Services (Solicitors - England & Wales)". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 8 Mar 2023, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.mytenders.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [General Medical Council (GMC)](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/general-medical-council-gmc-GB-PPON-PXLD-1125-PGBY)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 8 March 2023 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Legal services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £500,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03a2da`

## 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/external-legal-services-solicitors-england-wales-ocds-h6vhtk-03a2da#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [mytenders.co.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mytenders.co.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/external-legal-services-solicitors-england-wales-ocds-h6vhtk-03a2da#participate

## Description
The GMC has a substantial and well established in-house legal team. The in-house legal team carries out the majority of the legal work for the GMC in relation to the exercise of its core statutory functions. It is now the sole provider of legal services in respect of the investigation of cases in relation to individual medical practitioners, as well as the conduct on behalf of the GMC of resultant cases before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) and litigation before the courts of England and Wales.
As a consequence the GMC does not anticipate that it will require much (if any) assistance from its external legal services supplier in relation to the day to day delivery of its core statutory functions. It is anticipated that the vast majority of instructions will relate to legal issues associated with any large commercial organisation and / or public sector body as reflected in the statement of requirement.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79100000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The GMC has a substantial and well established in-house legal team. The in-house legal team carries out the majority of the legal work for the GMC in relation to the exercise of its core statutory functions. It is now the sole provider of legal servi...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 023226-2023-GMC1693-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Mills & Reeve LLP**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-186978`
  - Value: £500,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 023226-2023-GMC1693-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £500,000
  - Signed Date: 04/05/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F023226-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-08-09T11:35:41.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T04:53:56.158Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03a2da