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# Procurement of Immigration Telephone Advice Services from 1 June 2021

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/procurement-of-immigration-telephone-advice-services-from-1-june-2021-ocds-h6vhtk-02b408). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Legal Aid Agency: "Procurement of Immigration Telephone Advice Services from 1 June 2021". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **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:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Legal services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £173,724 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02b408`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
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- **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-immigration-telephone-advice-services-from-1-june-2021-ocds-h6vhtk-02b408#tl-md)

## Description
On 10 December 2020, the Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) published an invitation to tender for Civil Legal Aid, Immigration Telephone Advice Services (“ITA Services”) in England and Wales from 1 June 2021 on its e-Tendering portal.
In accordance with the LAA’s right to do so pursuant to paragraph 5.24 of the Invitation to Tender Information for Applicants (“IFA”) document, the LAA cancelled the procurement process in its entirety on 30 April 2021. The LAA notified applicants and published a cancellation notice on its website on that date. For completeness a Contract Award Notice is also being published.
This means that the LAA did not proceed with the award of any ITA Services contracts under that procurement process. The LAA received insufficient compliant tenders that met the minimum quality requirements. The procurement process therefore did not result in the award of any contracts to provide ITA Services from 1 June 2021.
To ensure on-going access to ITA Services for Clients beyond 1 June 2021, the LAA has extended the existing contract with the current ITA Services provider (Optimus Law Ltd) for a period of 12 months to 31 May 2022.
During this time the LAA and Ministry of Justice are undertaking a review of the ITA service to consider the commission of this service in the future. 
Further information can be found: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-telephone-advice-services-from-june-2021

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

- **Delivery regions:** UK

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Contract to deliver ITA Services for a period of 12 months from 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2022 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2022 (active)
  - Award id: `011414-2021-1-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Optimus Law Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-16995`
  - Value: £173,724 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Contract to deliver ITA Services for a period of 12 months from 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2022 1 June 2021 to 31 May 2022 (active)
  - Signed Value: £173,724
  - Signed Date: 27/04/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F011414-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-05-21T21:45:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T17:29:43.490Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02b408