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Legal Subscription Services

Subscription services
UK
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Government Legal Department: "Legal Subscription Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityGovernment Legal DepartmentScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for Government Legal Department. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
Not availableNo published reports
Bid counts are not published for this buyer
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
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Coverage: 2 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityGovernment Legal Department
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published18 Apr 2024, 14:13 BST
Last source update18 Apr 2024, 14:13 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationSubscription services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04535b
What is being bought
An online legal subscription service.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    18 Apr 2024, 14:13 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    18 Apr 2024, 14:13 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    18 Apr 2024, 14:13 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    Status not published
    Published valueNot published
    An online legal subscription service, which provides large and sophisticated databases of legal information (e.g. case law) for the UK and abroad.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    18 Apr 2024, 14:13 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 18 Apr 2024, 00:00 BST · £8,000,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
RELX (UK) Limited t/a LexisNexis
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£8,000,000 · signed 18 Apr 2024, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Government Legal Department

Contracting authority GB-FTS-111246
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  • Government Legal Department
    buyer

    102 Petty France, London, UK, SW1H9GL
    procurement@governmentlegal.gov.uk

  • Government Legal Department
    reviewBody

    London

  • RELX (UK) Limited t/a LexisNexis
    supplier

    GB-COH: 02746616
    London, UK
Documents (0)
Official links; attachments are not copied
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Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe Government Legal Department ("the Contracting Authority") is intending to enter into a contract with RELX (UK) Limited t/a LexisNexis ("LN") for the provision of online legal resource information services. In summary, LN provides access to an online legal database containing unique content the Contracting Authority requires. This content can only be made available from the source publisher i.e. LN. Lexis + is a proprietary service which contains unique content only published by LN. The purpose of this VEAT notice is to provide sufficient notice of the intention to award a four year contract to LN in accordance with Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) and 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR"). Having reviewed its requirements for this contract, the Contracting Authority has concluded that an award to LN is permissible under Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) and (iii) of the PCR because (i) LN is the only supplier in the market that can provide these technical services to the required specification and (ii) has protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights. The Contracting Authority is satisfied that no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not as a result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. The Contracting Authority shall enter into the contract with LN ten days after the date on which this VEAT notice is published.