Official UK procurement notice
Wheatley Group Legal & Associated Services Framework LE0003
Authority: The Wheatley Housing Group Limited (Housing)
What is being bought7 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe Wheatley Group intends to establish a multi-lot Framework Agreement for the provision of Legal & Associated Services to replace the current framework. This new Framework will be divided into 7 lots covering Lot 1 Commercial Contracts Lot 2 Legal Governance & Charities Lot 3 Legal Employment & General Civil Litigation Lot 4 Financing Lot 5a – Sheriff Officer Services (Central Scotland Region) Lot 5b - Sheriff Officer Services (Dumfries and Galloway Region) Lot 6 Property Searching & Reporting Services. The Framework will be for a period of 36 months with the option to extend for a further 12 months at the sole discretion of the Wheatley Group.
Lot 1 – Commercial Contracts – including as a minimum procurement, construction, construction litigation, development, real estate, intellectual property, information technology and associated legal advice.
Lot 2 – Legal Governance & Legal Charities – including as a minimum governance and business structures, data protection, charities advice including business structures and corporate matters and associated legal advice.
Lot 3 - Legal Employment & General Civil Litigation – including as a minimum employment law, pensions advice and general civil litigation services.
Lot 4 – Financing– including as a minimum capital markets and bank funding in relation to new and existing funding and relating to both Scottish and English law
Lot 5a – Sheriff Officer Services (Central Scotland Region).
Lot 5b – Sheriff Officer Services (Dumfries and Galloway Region).
Lot 6 – Property Searching & Reporting Services.
CPV: Collection agency services · Commercial property management services · Law-courts-related administrative services · Legal advisory and information services · Legal advisory and representation services · Legal advisory services · Legal documentation and certification services · Legal representation services · Legal services · Residential property services
Lots and requirements (7)Procurement structure
7 lots · 1 with a published value · evaluation weights differ by lotLot #1Commercial ContractsRenewalLot estimate not published
Lot 1 Commercial Contracts covers the following areas as a minimum: procurement, construction, development, real estate, intellectual property, information technology, environmental and planning law, litigation support and associated legal advice.
Lot #2Legal Governance & CharitiesRenewalPublished value£95,000
Lot 2 Legal Governance & Legal Charities including as a minimum governance and business structures, data protection, charities advice including legal structural business and corporate matters and associated legal advice.
Lot #3Legal Employment & General Civil LitigationRenewalLot estimate not published
Lot 3 Legal Employment & General Civil Litigation to cover as a minimum: employment law, pensions and court litigation services. Employment law advice to the Group’s Human Resource (HR) department both on a rolling ad hoc basis and in relation to any specific projects affecting the employment status of the employees within the Group companies, keeping our HR department up to date on relevant changes in employment law, advice on compromise agreements, employment tribunal representation where required, TUPE and advice to the in-house legal team in relation to TUPE or other employment issues that may arise in relation to individual projects or third party contracts. Pension’s advice is also included.
Litigation primarily in relation to Court of Session cases, including Judicial Review. Advice and support may be required with housing related litigation including Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and actions for eviction, defence of reparation actions, and actions for Reduction, Suspension and Interdict, although this type of work is generally handled in-house.
Lot #4FinancingRenewalLot estimate not published
Lot 4 providing legal services associated with the area of Financing as follows?
Treasury (debt finance, listed securities, bonds);
Banking and finance including the raising of new, and management of existing bank and capital markets funding;
Issuance and hedging arrangements;
Charging and security work;
FCA and financial regulatory support;
Mergers & acquisitions;
Acquisitions and disposals;
Joint ventures;
Corporate finance;
Financial services regulation;
Corporate insolvency law;
Constitutional issues;
Corporate governance;
New business opportunities;
Amalgamations and restructuring;
Stock transfers;
Taxation advice;
Co-operative & Community Benefit societies law;
Grant applications e.g. Big Lottery funding.
Lot #5Sheriff Officer Services - Central Scotland RegionRenewalLot estimate not published
Sheriff Officer services which will be required to cover the Central Scotland Region in relation to this lot arise from litigation in relation to rent arrears recovery, general debt recovery for former tenant arrears, litigation to recover factoring debt, anti-social evictions and anti-social behaviour orders. The Sheriff Officers must have experience in providing a wide range of Sheriff Officer services and dealing with a high volume of work. The Sheriff Officers must employ appropriate numbers of suitably qualified staff with a sufficiently broad range of expertise to meet our requirements.
Lot #6Sheriff Officer Services - Dumfries and Galloway RegionRenewalLot estimate not published
Sheriff Officer services which will be required to cover the Dumfries and Galloway Region in relation to this lot arise from litigation in relation to rent arrears recovery, general debt recovery for former tenant arrears, litigation to recover factoring debt, anti-social evictions and anti-social behaviour orders. The Sheriff Officers must have experience in providing a wide range of Sheriff Officer services and dealing with a high volume of work. The Sheriff Officers must employ appropriate numbers of suitably qualified staff with a sufficiently broad range of expertise to meet our requirements.
Lot #7Property Searching & ReportingRenewalLot estimate not published
The Wheatley Group expects successful Service Providers for this Lot to provide services related to property transactions where Wheatley Housing Group entities are the sellers of, or granters of subordinate rights in, the land, including, but not limited to:
Legal Reports
Plans Reports
Companies/Mutual Societies searches
Register of Community Interests in Land searches
Property Enquiry Certificates
Coal Mining Reports
Extracts/copies of title deeds
Ownership searches, particularly Register of Sasines
Ownership plans (site assembly)
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lots publish different evaluation splits; there is no single procedure weighting.
- Suitability
SPD Part IV. Question 4A.1: Trade Register
It is a requirement of this tender that if the tenderer is UK-based, they must hold a valid registration with Companies House. Where the tenderer is UK based but not registered at Companies House, they must be able to verify to WHG’s satisfaction that they are trading from the address provided in the tender and under the company name given.
Tenderers within the UK must confirm if they are registered under Companies House within this question. If the tenderer is based out-with the UK they must be enrolled in the relevant professional or trade register appropriate to their country as described in Schedule 5 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
SPD Question 4A.2 Authorisation or membership (Pass or fail)
Bidders must be a member of the following in respect of Lots 1,2,3,4:-
Member of the Law Society of Scotland
Bidders must be a member of the following in respect of Lot 5a and Lot 5b:-
Member of the Society of Messengers-at-Arms & Sheriff Officers
It is a mandatory requirement for bidders to hold the above memberships.
This requirement does not apply to Lot 6 - Property Searching and Reporting
More information - Appendix 1 - Instructions to Tenderers document (Section 14)
- Economic & financial standing
SPD Question 4.B.1 Turnover (For information only)
Bidders will be required to provide the "general" annual turnover for the previous three (3) years or for how long the organisation has been in operation if this is less than 3 years.
SPD Question 4.B.5 - Insurance (Pass/Fail)
Bidders are required to hold the following levels of Insurance:
Lot 1, Lot 4 & Lot 6-
Employer's Liability insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION (GBP 5,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Public Liability insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION (GBP 5,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Professional Indemnity insurance to the value of at least TEN MILLION (GBP 10,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Lot 2 & 3 -
Employer's Liability insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION (GBP 5,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Public Liability insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION (GBP 5,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Professional Indemnity insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION (GBP 5,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Lot 5a and 5b -
Employer's Liability insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION (GBP 5,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Public Liability insurance to the value of at least FIVE MILLION (GBP 5,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
Professional Indemnity insurance to the value of at least TWO MILLION (GBP 2,000,000) POUNDS STERLING
The above insurances shall be with an insurance company registered with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, or equivalent body for other EU member states.
Should the Bidder not have the specified i…
Minimum: All bidders must pass the minimum requirements as detailed in this contract notice and bidder's documentation. Where a Bidder does not hold or commit to obtaining the types and levels of insurance indicated, the Wheatley Group will exclude the Bidder from the competition. More in… - Technical & professional ability
- Applicable Scored Quality questions.
2)Interview/Presentation
- Added Values
- Community Benefits
The above questions are scored and instructions can be found in section 15 of Appendix 1 - ITT document.
Responses to these questions should be presented in Appendix 3 - Quality Questions document
Minimum: All bidders must pass the minimum requirements as detailed in this contract notice and Appendix 1 - Invitation to Tender document. - Technical & professional ability
Bidders must be a member of the following in respect of Lots 1,2,3,4
Member of the Law Society of Scotland
Bidders must be a member of the following in respect of Lot 5a & Lot 5b:-
Member of the Society of Messengers-at-Arms & Sheriff Officers
This requirement does not apply to Lot 6 - Property Searching and Reporting
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 30 points on every lot: a 10% discount moves about 3 points.
- “Wheatley Group Legal & Associated Services Framework LE0003” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 19 Feb 2026, 08:57 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Apr 2026, 10:40 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 15 May 2026 – …
- Authority reference
LE0003- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031794- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0657a8Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Following successful appointment to the Framework, Service Providers must monitor the volume of spend which has been awarded to their organisation and commit to undertaking at least one of the Community Benefits or Knowledge Transfer benefits listed in Appendix 7 - Terms and Conditions domument, for each accumulative total of GBP 50,000 spend with their organisations (i.e. GBP 150,000 total commission will see a requirement of 3 community benefits to be undertaken).
The successful service provider will ensure they meet the service level agreement on the Appendix 7 - Terms and Conditions domument as a minimum and also monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) using the provided template (Appendix 6 - KPIs)
Additional Services – the service providers appointed to the Framework will provide access to a number of additional added value services including Know-How, Training, initial consultation.
See Section Appendix 7 - Terms and Conditions domument
Publisher note: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. Bidders responses to the SPD 3A – 4B questions will be assessed on the basis of Pass/Faill, while others will be on for information only (See SPD Portal). Budders Responses to Quality Questions will be assessed on scored basis - See Appendix 3 - Quality Questions More information in Appendix 1 Invitation to Tender document Requests for clarification received through any other channel including by email will not be answered. Resave submission documents with file names that dont exceed 40 characters and files should not be zipped. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=824146. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Following successful appointment to the Framework, Service Providers must monitor the volume of spend which has been awarded to their organisation and commit to undertaking at least one of the Community Benefits or Knowledge Transfer benefits including donation to Wheatley Group Foundation as listed in Appendix 7 - Terms and Conditions domument. For each accumulative total of GBP 50,000 spend with their organisations (i.e. GBP 150,000 total commission will see a requirement of 3 community benefits to be undertaken). (SC Ref:824146) Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=824146
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 15 May 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 15 May 2026, 17:00 BST
Timeline
16 Mar 2026 → 15 May 2026 · 4 dates- Next notice expected220 days ago16 Mar 2026
- Notice published197 days ago8 Apr 2026, 10:40 BST
- Admission / appointment period ends160 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown15 May 2026, 17:00 BST
- Bids opened160 days ago15 May 2026, 17:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Apr 2026- Published value published: £6,000,0008 Apr 2026, 10:40 BST
- Status changed to active8 Apr 2026, 10:40 BST
- Procurement method changed8 Apr 2026, 10:40 BST
- Deadline published: 15 May 2026, 17:00 BST8 Apr 2026, 10:40 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Glasgow Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.