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title: "Prior Information Notice - Specialist community legal advice"
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# Prior Information Notice - Specialist community legal advice

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/prior-information-notice-specialist-community-legal-advice-ocds-h6vhtk-043b36). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** To provide universal, free at point of access specialist level triage, information, advice, casework and legal representation in the following advice areas: welfare benefits, housing, immigration and employment. Specialist level work requires the consideration and presentation of complex legal arguments (Advice Quality Standard). Providers interested in the specialist level service must have demonstrable competence in supporting complex and intersectional cases, as well as the appropriate authorisations to provide services in the specified areas.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [London Borough of Southwark](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/london-borough-of-southwark-ons-e09000028)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Other community, social and personal services
- **Delivery Location:** UKI44
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-043b36`

## 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/prior-information-notice-specialist-community-legal-advice-ocds-h6vhtk-043b36#tl-md)

## Description
To provide universal, free at point of access specialist level triage, information, advice, casework and legal representation in the following advice areas: welfare benefits, housing, immigration and employment.
Specialist level work requires the consideration and presentation of complex legal arguments (Advice Quality Standard). Providers interested in the specialist level service must have demonstrable competence in supporting complex and intersectional cases, as well as the appropriate authorisations to provide services in the specified areas.

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

- **Delivery regions:** UKI

- **Description:** This information notice aims to test the market for the provision of the described services in Southwark local authority area. The procurement strategy, specification and tender requirements are to be determined, following the outcome of our consulta...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F005410-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-02-19T15:16:27.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-05T03:37:42.446Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-043b36