Official UK procurement notice
Legal Services Tender · UK public procurement notice
Authority: SEVERN TRENT WATER LIMITED (Public body)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought4 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThis is a multi-lot tender for legal services.
Lot 1. Main Panel
Lot 2. Business Services
Lot 3. Insurance and Commercial Litigation
Lot 4. Corporate legal Services
CPV: Legal services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 7 bids on the busiest of 4 lots · 6 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (4)Procurement structure
4 lots · all with a published value · evaluation weights differ by lotLot #1Main PanelAwardedPublished value£18,000,000
The main panel provides the majority of the legal services required by the Utilities, on a non-exclusive basis, including without limitation:
Commercial and innovation, competition and procurement law, construction, data protection, environmental, regulatory and health and safety, employment and pensions, real estate including real estate litigation and planning, regulatory prosecutions and defences of environmental regulatory offences, strategic resource options and direct procurement for customers, water industry regulation and licence and small corporate.
Non-regulated business within the Severn Trent Plc group may also purchase legal services from Lot 1.
Lot #2Business ServicesAwardedPublished value£1,750,000
This is the non-exclusive appointment of a provider of legal services to the non-regulated
businesses, Severn Trent Green Power Ltd and its subsidiaries, and Severn Trent Services
and its subsidiaries. Severn Trent Connect and Midlands Land Portfolio Limited may also use this panel.
The range of legal services includes Commercial, Commercial Litigation, Construction Contentious and Non Contentious, Environmental Compliance, Small - Mid sized Corporate, Real Estate and Planning, Ofgem Regulatory Advice and FCA Advice, Private Water Regulations/PFI Contract Expertise.
These non-regulated businesses are not subject to the Utilities Contract Regulations Act 2016
Lot #3Insurance & Commercial Litigation ServicesAwardedPublished value£5,000,000
This lot is for commercial litigation and insurance legal work, namely the provision of insurance legal advice in relation to employers liability, motor claims, personal injury and third-party recoveries and Schedule 12 of the Water Industry Act.
Commercial litigation may also be instructed under Lots 1, 2 and 4.
Lot #4Corporate Legal ServicesAwardedPublished value£8,250,000
This appointment is for the provision of legal services to any member of the Severn Trent plc group of companies under the scope of services for this Lot 4, which may include corporate, company secretariat, tax, treasury, strategic litigation, strategic pensions, competition litigation and competition advice.
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Lots publish different evaluation splits; there is no single procedure weighting.
| Lot | Quality | Price | Split |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Main Panel | 50% | 50% | |
| 2 · Business Services | 50% | 50% | |
| 3 · Insurance & Commercial Litigation Services | 50% | 50% | |
| 4 · Corporate Legal Services | 50% | 50% |
- Technical & professional ability
Services may only be provided by firms authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to practice legal services in the United Kingdom.
- Price carries 50 points on every lot: a 10% discount moves about 5 points.
- “Legal Services Tender” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 1 May 2024, 12:17 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Mar 2025, 15:51 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-009291- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-045678Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 4 Jun 2024, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
4 Jun 2024 → 13 Mar 2025 · 2 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown4 Jun 2024, 23:59 BST
- Notice published13 Mar 2025, 15:51 GMT
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete13 Mar 2025, 15:51 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast7 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 4 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £18,000,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Lot 1 Main Panel Framework
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 1 Main Panel Framework
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 1 Main Panel Framework
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 1 Main Panel Framework
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Lot 2 Business Services
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- £1,750,000
- Status
- active
Lot 3 Insurance and Commercial Litigation
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- £5,000,000
- Status
- active
Lot 4 Corporate Legal Services
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- £5,250,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Main Panel | 7bids | — | — | — |
| 2 · Business Services | 6bids | — | — | — |
| 3 · Insurance & Commercial Litigation Services | 4bids | — | — | — |
| 4 · Corporate Legal Services | 4bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Hafren Dyfrdwy CyfyngedigContracting authority
Framework contractors & participating bidders
6 commercial parties on the notice- Burges Salmon LLPFramework contractor
- DWF LAW LLPFramework contractor
- Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLPFramework contractor
- Gowling WLG (UK) LLPFramework contractor
- HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS LLPFramework contractor
- Michelmores LLPFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria