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About this bid round
The number of people helped through early civil legally aided advice has risen by more than a third in two years, to over 800,000 in 2006/7.
To ensure we continue to increase the number of people helped, we are inviting tenders from organisations wishing deliver publicly funded civil legal advice services.
This is an open tendering exercise for organisations to deliver family and/or an integrated social welfare law service at a basic advice level in a number of civil categories of law across England and Wales.
Successful organisations will also be authorised to provide representation to eligible clients in certain categories of law.
The deadline for submitting tenders has now passed.
About the process
We are running bid rounds to award contracts in the following categories:
- Family Law
- Family and Social Welfare Law
- Mental Health Law*.
For more information about the services we are seeking to procure, including how to submit tenders and the tender forms, please see 'Information for Applicants' or 'Tender form' under Documents.
FAQs are also under Documents.
Update on National - Specialist Family services
In the National 001 Information for Applicants, our timetable to send out offer letters to successful organisations was 23 Nov 07. Unfortunately, we have had to revise this target date to 30 Nov 07.
Information for unsuccessful applicants
Letters have now been sent to those organisations whose tender was unsuccessful at the essential criteria stage.
This is with the exception of the Reading Regional Office. Decisions will be communicated to the relevant organisations by fax or email (if provided by the organisation) on 22 Nov 07.
Mental Health tender
The Mental Health tender closed at 4pm on Wednesday 28 November 2007.
We have published a final version of the Mental Health Category Specific Section of the Unified Contract (under CLS> Unified Contract).
We would like to thank all those organisations who submitted tenders for family and social welfare categories of law.
These are being assessed and the outcomes will be communicated in accordance with the timetable set out in the Information for Applicants.
Remote hospitals and the mental health civil bid round
The hospitals that will attract Remote Travel Payments have not yet been decided upon while we continue to review provision of services.
Providers who intend to bid for extra matter starts in the current bid round (including in relation to 'Priority' hospitals) should assume that these matter starts will not attract Remote Travel Payments.
The LSC will publish a further statement on Remote Travel Payments in December 2007.
List of documents
Please see the Documents panel for:
- a summary of invitations to tender
- information for applicants
- tender forms
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)*
- a letter from Director of Contracting Mike Crowley.
*The documents panel contains the final version of the FAQ document (dated 14 November 2007). In particular, this FAQ document includes an update on Mental Health and clarification on the issue of subcontracting under the Unified Contract.
For more information
Please email civilbidrounds@legalservices.gov.uk if you have any questions relating to the tender process, or you can also contact you LSC regional office.
Further details will be publicised via the news pages of this website – please check back regularly.
Last updated: 30 November 2007