Lot 1
No lot description published.
Award criteria
The Quality & Technical Requirements (60%)
The Cost and Commercial element (30%)
The Presentation and Interview (10%)
View official notice ↗Official source
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) invites tenders for the provision of external legal services to support the preparation, management, and presentation of Fitness to Practise (FtP) cases. The appointed supplier(s) will investigate and manage complex and high-risk FtP cases, prepare them for hearings, and provide advocacy services before the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) and relevant courts.
UK, GB · UK, GB
No lot description published.
Award criteria
The Quality & Technical Requirements (60%)
The Cost and Commercial element (30%)
The Presentation and Interview (10%)
| Item | Category | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legal services | Not published |
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Legal services (79100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.
| Comparison set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 79 | 7,700 | 4 median · 33.3 average (2,853 of 7,700 with a bid count) | 3.2 average (3,216 of 7,700 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Same buyer | 1 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Delivery region: UK | 2,179 | 4 median · 67 average (782 of 2,179 with a bid count) | 5.1 average (926 of 2,179 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Similar published value (0.5×–2×) | 262 | 4 median · 4 average (2 of 262 with a bid count) | 1 average (2 of 262 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.
Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.
No planning milestones published.
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-05a8d5 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | ocds-h6vhtk-05a8d5-2025-10-27T08:59:38Z |
| Latest release timestamp | Mon Oct 27 2025 08:59:38 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062543-2025 |
| Tender status | active |
| Procurement method | open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | Yes |
| Legal basis | 2023/54 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | 2025-11-05T17:00:00Z |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | 2025-10-17T12:00:00+01:00 |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | 2025-11-24T23:59:59Z |
| Submission method details | Procurement@hcpc-uk.org Ifeoluwa.Ojo@hcpc-uk.org Tarek.Hussien@hcpc-uk.org |
| Submission languages | en |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | £24,000,000 |
| Tender lots in source | 1 |
| Tender items in source | 1 |
| Tender documents in source | 4 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct 2025 | tenderUpdate | 068397-2025 |
| 6 Oct 2025 | tender | 062543-2025 |
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