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National LGPS Framework for Legal Services

Legal services
UK
Published value
£40,000,000
Submission deadline 16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Norfolk County Council: "National LGPS Framework for Legal Services". Published status: planned. Published value: £40,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNorfolk County CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
39d 17h left
16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£40,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Norfolk County Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Norfolk County Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
6.3Bids / Report
3.6% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
UNIVERSAL CARE SERVICES (UK) LIMITEDTop vendor: 50.3% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 446 active published awards; 28 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
UNIVERSAL CARE SERVICES (UK) LIMITED1 win£20,334,263
TAYLOR CARE NORFOLK LIMITED1 win£11,310,568
ROYAL MENCAP SOCIETY3 wins£3,012,338
HILTON COMMUNITY SERVICES LIMITED2 wins£1,777,849
Dimensions (UK) Limited1 win£1,334,810
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNorfolk County Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSFramework
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published22 May 2026, 09:36 BST
Last source update22 May 2026, 09:36 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationLegal services
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06a048
What is being bought
Norfolk County Council on its own behalf and on behalf of the Pension Funds listed below wish to let a Multi-Provider Framework Agreement for the provision of specialist support for pension legal services primarily in the support of The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). - City of Edinburgh Council (as Administering Authority for Lothian Pension Fund) - LGPS Central Ltd Wolverhampton - Local Pensions Partnership Investments Ltd (LPPI) - City of Wolverhampton Council (as Administering Authority of the West Midlands Pension Fund) - Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC) - Staffordshire County Council (as Administering Authority for Staffordshire Pension Fund) This framework may also be used by: - Any LGPS administering authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/2356) (as amended) including the Firefighters' Pension Scheme and Police Pension Schemes and any of their participating employing authorities, or in relation to the LGPS in Scotland, any administering authority and any of their scheme employers as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/141) (as amended), - NILGOSC in Northern Ireland and employing authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (SRNI 2014/188) (as amended), - The Board of the Pension Protection Fund. - Any other administering authority or scheme manager of a public-sector pension scheme or any public-sector body that requires pensions related services, and - Any LGPS Fund(s) or groups of funds, or any bodies, organisations or companies established by them for the purpose of operating on a collective basis. This Framework will be split into Lots. Please note the estimated values are across all lots.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    22 May 2026, 09:36 BST
  2. Submission deadline changed to published date
    22 May 2026, 09:36 BST
  3. Published value updated to £40,000,000
    22 May 2026, 09:17 BST
  4. Status changed to planned
    22 May 2026, 09:17 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    22 May 2026, 09:17 BST
  6. Submission deadline changed to 16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
    22 May 2026, 09:17 BST
  7. Buyer information updated
    22 May 2026, 09:17 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    22 May 2026, 09:36 BST
  2. Procedure published
    22 May 2026, 09:36 BST
  3. engagement
    1 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    For more information and to register your interest in the market engagement, please visit In-Tend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/Home
  4. Submission deadline
    16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Norfolk County Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PDYH-3246-XWTR
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  • City of Wolverhampton Council (as Administering Authority of the West Midlands Pension Fund)
    procuringEntity

    GB-PPON: PRVB-3741-VDVX
    Civic Centre, Wolverhampton, UKG39, WV1 1SH, GB
  • LGPS CENTRAL LIMITED Wolverhampton
    procuringEntity

    GB-COH: 10425159 · GB-PPON: PVZL-3598-XMXZ
    1st Floor I9, Wolverhampton, UKG39, WV1 1LD, GB
  • Norfolk County Council (as Administering Authority of the Norfolk Pension Fund)
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PDYH-3246-XWTR
    County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, UKH15, NR1 2DH, GB
  • Staffordshire County Council (as Administering Authority for Staffordshire Pension Fund)
    procuringEntity

    GB-PPON: PZDG-2995-QQMD
    1 Staffordshire Place, Tipping Street,, Stafford, UKG24, ST16 2DH, GB
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published