Official UK procurement notice
Metrolink Trafford Park Line - Miscellaneous Legal Services Provider DLA Piper
Authority: Transport for Greater Manchester (Public body)
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: North West (UKD)
Awarded value£70,000published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 30 Jul 2025no call for competition
Awarded to DLA Piper
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLegal advice to TfGM in relation to:
- concluding an outstanding grant to Electricity North-West Ltd of a lease of a Metrolink traction substation site at Pomona Strand, Trafford including dealing with all and any Land Registry enquiries and requirements and the consent of the superior landlord - Peel Land (Intermediate) Limited - and dealing with any SDLT enquiries and the preparation and submission to HMRC of relevant SDLT Returns (if any); and
- concluding a suite of outstanding third-party Agreements with landowners at Barton Dock Road known as CHEP/Maher including dealing with all and any Land Registry requirements and requisitions and dealing with any SDLT enquiries and the preparation and submission to HMRC of relevant SDLT Returns (if any);
Ad-hoc' legal advice in relation to:
- enquiries relating to SDLT paid pursuant to the Peel Short and Long Lease workstreams dealt with by DLA between 2016-2022 and including completion and submission of any outstanding or supplemental further SDLT Returns required under the SDLT legislation or by HMRC and/or (if appropriate) the re-claim of any overpaid SDLT paid in respect of any previously completed Peel Long Leases; and
- advice and assistance in relation to completed registrations of the Peel Long Leases where requisitions are raised by HM Land Registry or where TfGM have questions or requisitions themselves relating to any such completed registrations.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - without competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Jul 2025, 16:15 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Jul 2025, 16:15 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-044433- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-056975Find a Tender
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Contract details notice published30 Jul 2025, 16:15 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastContracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- DLA PIPER UK LLPAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender