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title: "Procurement of Housing and Debt Services and HPCDS Services from February 2023"
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# Procurement of Housing and Debt Services and HPCDS Services from February 2023

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/procurement-of-housing-and-debt-services-and-hpcds-services-from-february-2023-ocds-h6vhtk-0391a0). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Legal Aid Agency: "Procurement of Housing and Debt Services and HPCDS Services from February 2023". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 12 Jan 2023, 17:00 GMT. Published submission portal: legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [The Legal Aid Agency](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-legal-aid-agency-gov-ea556)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 12 January 2023 at 17:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Legal services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD72, UKJ27
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0391a0`

## 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/procurement-of-housing-and-debt-services-and-hpcds-services-from-february-2023-ocds-h6vhtk-0391a0#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegalaid.bravosolution.co.uk%2Fweb%2Flogin.shtml)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/procurement-of-housing-and-debt-services-and-hpcds-services-from-february-2023-ocds-h6vhtk-0391a0#participate

## Description
The Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) has identified the need to increase access to legal aid Housing and Debt Services in specific Housing and Debt Procurement areas and for specific Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes (“HPCDS”). Accordingly, it is inviting Applicants to submit a Tender to deliver:
a)	Housing and Debt services in:
•	West Sussex
b)	The following HPCDS:
•	Horsham and Worthing
•	Liverpool
Applicants may bid for Housing and Debt Contract Work and/or HPCDS Contract Work through this procurement process. They are not obliged to bid for both Housing and Debt and HPCDS, although they should note that to be eligible to bid for an HPCDS Contract organisations must hold, or successfully bid for as part of this procurement process, a 2018 Standard Civil Contract with authorisation in the Housing and Debt Categories of Law.
The Deadline for submitting Tenders is 5pm on 12 January 2023 (“Deadline”) 
All Tenders must be completed and submitted using the eTendering system. This can be accessed either through a link on the tender pages of the LAA website or directly at www.legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk. 
Late submissions will not be considered under any circumstances. It is the Applicant’s sole responsibility to ensure that the LAA receives its Tender before the Deadline.
For Housing and Debt The LAA is looking for Applicants who can start delivering Contact Work as quickly as possible. Applicants will be required to state in their Tender when they can start delivering Contract Work from each Office from which they are bidding. Contracts will run until 31 August 2024 (subject to the LAA’s rights of early termination).
Each HPCDS will commence on 1 February 2023 (or the date on which Applicants bid to commence the delivery) and run until 31 October 2023 (subject to the LAA’s rights of early termination).

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79100000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD, UKJ

- **Contract Period:** 01/02/2023 to 31/08/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F035559-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-12-15T16:09:30.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T17:55:17.138Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0391a0