Civil bid rounds 2008

Final Date for receipt of Appeals rejected at Essential Criteria.

On this page:

About this bid round
About the process
Update on immigration tenders
List of documents
For more information

Latest Update

We recently announced a tender process for up to £10 million of new civil legal advice. The closing date for bids was 7th August 2008. We published a timeline from publication of documents to award of contracts in section 2.12 of the Information for Applicants. Due to the high number of tenders received, particularly from new organisations, the assessment of the bids will take longer than anticipated.

We have therefore amended the timeline as follows:

Stage	Activity	Timeline
Stages 1-4	Activity now passed	N/A
Stage 5	Essential Criteria assessed and where not met, the Tender will go no further and unsuccessful organisations will be notified in writing.	5 September 2008
Stage 6	Final Date for receipt of Appeals rejected at Essential Criteria.	12 September 2008
Stage 7	Final date decisions made, offer, final rejections and appeal outcomes letters sent.	19 September 2008
Stage 8	Final Date for receipt of Appeals rejected at Selection and Tiebreaker Stages.	10 October 2008
Stage 9	Revised Unified Contract (Civil) Schedules (for existing providers) or new Unified Contract (Civil)s (for new providers) issued.	No set date However we estimate it will be within 2 weeks of the date the offer letter is sent.
Stage 10	Commencement of Service	No set date however it must be within 12 weeks of the date the offer letter is sent.

About this bid round

We are inviting tenders for:

family and/or an integrated social welfare law service at a basic advice level in a number of civil categories of law
immigration advice both by telephone and at immigration removal centres.

This is an open tendering process. All firms or agencies that meet our quality standards can apply, currently contracted or not.

Successful organisations will also be authorised to provide representation to eligible clients in certain categories of law.

The deadline for submitting tenders is 7 Aug 08.

About the process

We are running bid rounds to award contracts in:

specialist advice in domestic abuse
specialist advice in public law children.

We're inviting tenders to deliver family and/or social welfare law services (a minimum of 3 social welfare law categories from debt, housing, welfare benefits, community care and employment) in specific procurement areas across England and Wales.

We are also inviting Expressions of Interest in the provision of Family Mediation services.

Check the 'information for applicants' and 'tender form' under Documents for full details.

Update on immigration tenders

We will shortly be inviting tenders for specialist, high quality and easily accessible services for immigration advice at:

police stations
immigration removal centres (IRCs).

Tender information will apear in this section. We will update via the CLS news page and LSC Update email.

List of documents

Please see the Documents panel for:

a summary of invitations to tender
information for applicants
tender forms
form to register expressions of interest to provide family mediation services.

For more information

Please refer to the Q&A in the documents panel.

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Last updated: 30 September 2008