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# NEX23/59 Legal Services for the Washington Metro Loop

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nex23-59-legal-services-for-the-washington-metro-loop-ocds-h6vhtk-041e3f). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Nexus: "NEX23/59 Legal Services for the Washington Metro Loop". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 14 Feb 2024, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.nepo.org.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Nexus](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nexus-GB-FTS-8142)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 14 February 2024 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Legal services
- **Delivery Location:** UKC, UKC2
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-041e3f`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nex23-59-legal-services-for-the-washington-metro-loop-ocds-h6vhtk-041e3f#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [nepo.org](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nepo.org%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nex23-59-legal-services-for-the-washington-metro-loop-ocds-h6vhtk-041e3f#participate

## Description
Nexus requires suitably qualified and experienced legal advisors, who will be appointed to a zero-value eight-year framework to support Nexus on a project to plan, construct, commission and operate passenger services on the Washington Metro Loop (WML). Subject to approval of the Outline Business Case (OBC) by Government in due course, the legal retainer is expected to encompass the advice required to (i) prepare the content of the OBC; (ii) implement the agreed strategies set out in the OBC; (iii) deliver the OBC strategies and, in turn, commence operations on the WML in years ahead. The exact scope of work during the framework term will be subject to the timely progress of the project.
The legal advisors will be required to have strong levels of recent experience across rail infrastructure projects, including but not limited to experience in the following areas:
• Strategies in connection with land acquisition and consents;
• Planning matters including permitted development rights in a rail context;
• Rail regulatory matters including licensing, consents and communications with regulatory bodies;
• Rail operations;
• Interfaces with Network Rail as a key delivery partner in the project, to include areas such as infrastructure management, track access, station leases and train operations;
• Project governance and communications with project stakeholders including local authority and combined authority partners, DfT and MHCLG among others;
• Project funding;
• Procurement, with the potential need for additional rolling stock as part of the project deliverables;
• Environmental and/or social issues connected with the project;
• Rail construction and engineering contracts; and
• Project insurances.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKC

- **Description:** Nexus requires suitably qualified and experienced legal advisors, who will be appointed to a zero-value eight-year framework to support Nexus on a project to plan, construct, commission and operate passenger services on the Washington Metro Loop WML)...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** NEX23/59 Legal Services for the Washington Metro Loop (active)
  - Award id: `031672-2024-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** NEX23/59 Legal Services for the Washington Metro Loop (active)

  - Signed Date: 10/09/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F031672-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-10-03T10:47:21.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T12:24:15.897Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-041e3f