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Legal Services - 2025

Buyer: University of Hertfordshire →

BuyerUniversity of Hertfordshire
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published1 Sept 2025

What is being bought

The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise to set up retainers with a range of bidders for the provision of legal services. These retainers will cover the requirements of both the University and its subsidiaries. It is anticipated that the contract will run from the 1st August 2025 for an initial period of three (3) years until 31st July 2028. At the end of the first three years the University will have an option to extend for a further two years. This is subject to satisfactory performance of the contract. The contract duration is a maximum of five years.The tender was divided into the following six (6) separate lots. The number of appointees per lot is stated in the specification document. Tenders can bid for any combinations of the lots as they see fit. The University will evaluate the tender returns on a per lot basis.

Delivery location

UKH23 · UKH23 · UKH23 · UKH23 · UKH23 · UKH23

Categories

Legal services 79100000Legal advisory and representation services 79110000Legal advisory services 79111000Legal advisory and information services 79140000Legal services 79100000

Lot details

Commercial and Corporate Law

The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise to set up retainers with a range of bidders for the provision of legal services. The tender will be divided into the following six (6) separate lots.This Lot covers Commercial and Corporate Law.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Governance, Regulatory, Constitutional, Charity and Health & Safety Law

The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise to set up retainers with a range of bidders for the provision of legal services. The tender will be divided into the following six (6) separate lots.This lot is for legal services of Governance, Regulatory, Constitutional, Charity and Health & Safety Law.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Employment Law

The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise to set up retainers with a range of bidders for the provision of legal services. The tender will be divided into the following six (6) separate lots.This Lot is for Employment Law Services.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise to set up retainers with a range of bidders for the provision of legal services. The tender will be divided into the following six (6) separate lots.This lot is for Dispute Resolution and Litigation Services.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Estates and Property Law (including Construction Law)

The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise to set up retainers with a range of bidders for the provision of legal services. The tender will be divided into the following six (6) separate lots.This lot is for Estates and Property Law (including Construction Law) Services.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

Patent Attorney

The University of Hertfordshire is conducting a tender exercise to set up retainers with a range of bidders for the provision of legal services. The tender will be divided into the following six (6) separate lots.This lot is for Patent Attorney Legal Services.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Legal services, Legal advisory and representation services, Legal advisory servicesNot published
2Legal services, Legal advisory services, Legal advisory and information servicesNot published
3Legal services, Legal advisory services, Legal advisory and information servicesNot published
4Legal services, Legal advisory services, Legal advisory and information servicesNot published
5Legal services, Legal advisory services, Legal advisory and information servicesNot published
6Legal services, Legal advisory services, Legal advisory and information servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Legal services (79100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 796,0474 median · 32.5 average (1,999 of 6,047 with a bid count)3.3 average (2,234 of 6,047 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer212 median · 12 average (1 of 2 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 2 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKH23284 median · 5.4 average (7 of 28 with a bid count)1 average (8 of 28 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

Commercial and Corporate Law

Statusactive
Value£150,000

Governance, Regulatory, Constitutional, Charity and Health & Safety Law

Statusactive
Value£150,000

Employment Law

Statusactive
Value£350,000

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Statusactive
Value£150,000

Estates and Property Law (including Construction Law)

Statusactive
Value£800,000

Patent Attorney

Statusactive
Value£150,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e2d3
Latest release ID052915-2025
Latest release timestampMon Sep 01 2025 15:07:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source6
Tender items in source6
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release6
Contracts in latest release6
Parties in latest release8

Notice history

DateEventReference
1 Sept 2025award, contract052915-2025
17 Feb 2025tender005419-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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17 Feb 2025 · 005419-2025 · tender
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