Civil contracts for 2010

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31 October 2011 - Notice on Mental Health Matter Start Allocation

We have today published a notice detailing our approach to allocating mental health Matter Starts both arising from the verification process and for those providers who are running out of Matter Starts before the end of the current schedule period (30 November). It also provides information on how we intend to allocate matter starts in the next schedule period.  

It is titled 'Note on Mental Health Matter Start Allocation – Oct 11 (180kbs)' and can be found in the 'Documents' section of the Mental Health tenders page on our website.

24 October 2011 - Invitation to Tender to deliver Immigration Services in City of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset, City of Plymouth, Norfolk and Suffolk are now open
We have today opened a tender process to invite tenders to deliver Immigration Services in the following Access Points:

Please see the Immigration and Asylum tender pages for more information. 

8 August 2011 - Immigration and Asylum Expressions of Interest - Norfolk, Suffolk and The City of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset Access Points
We have today published notices and forms relating to expressions of interest to deliver Immigration and Asylum services in the above Access Points. Please see the Immigration and Asylum tender pages for more information.

17 May 2011 - Recent tender processes have now closed
All recent tender processes run earlier in 2011 have now closed. Results of those processes run in March and April have been communicated to Applicant Organisations. In the tender processes which closed today, tenders are now being assessed and results will be communicated shortly.

13 April 2011 - Invitations to Tender to deliver Social Welfare Law services in several Procurement Areas, Low Volume Categories services and a Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme are now open
We have today opened several tender processes to invite tenders in the following Procurement Areas/Access Points:

Please see the Social Welfare Law and Family page and the Low Volume Categories page for more information.

25 March 2011 - Supervisor Declaration Forms have moved
The latest versions of the Supervisor Declaration Forms can now be found on the 2010 Standard Civil Contract pages of the website.

17 March 2011 – Invitations to Tender to deliver Debt, Housing and Welfare Benefits Services in the areas of Southampton, Herefordshire and Rest of Cambridgeshire
We have today opened a tender process to invite tenders to deliver the Social Welfare Law Categories of Debt, Housing and Welfare Benefits in three areas:

Please see the Social Welfare Law and Family page for more information.

17 March 2011 - Invitation to Tender to deliver a Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme in South West Wales
We have today opened a tender process to invite tenders to deliver a Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme in South West Wales covering Carmarthen, Haverfordwest and Llanelli County Courts.  Please see the Social Welfare Law and Family page for more information.

1 March 2011 - Updated Social Welfare law tender outcomes information published
Further to outcomes information published in December and January, we have today published updated information on the outcomes of last year's Social Welfare Law tender processes. This is available in the Documents panel on the right hand side of the Social Welfare Law and Family page.

18 February 2011 -Invitations to Tender to deliver Immigration and Asylum services in the City of Plymouth and The Kent Coast
We have today opened a tender process to invite tenders to deliver Immigration and Asylum services in the City of Plymouth and The Kent Coast. Please see the Immigration and Asylum tender pages for more information.

8 February 2011 - Publication of outcome of Family Mediation tender process
We have today published details of the outcomes of the Family Mediation tender process.  These are available in the Documents panel on the right hand side of the Social Welfare Law and Family page.

4 February 2011 - Publication of updated tender outcomes outcomes - Mental Health and Public Law
We have today published updated details of the outcomes of these tenders to take account of the majority of changes following additional verification. However, please note that until any representations have been concluded, we will not reallocate any matter starts returned as a result of withdrawals or the additional verification.

27 January 2011 – Publication of outcome of Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme tender process
We have today published details of the outcomes of the Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme tender process for the award of HPCDS Exclusive Schedules from 15 November 2010.  These are available in the Documents panel on the right hand side of the Social Welfare Law and Family page.

17 January 2011 - Publication of outcome of tender process
Further to the updates published on 17 December we have today published a second iteration of the tender outcomes in all categories apart from mental health and public law where we are still reviewing responses received to the recent verification exercise. These replace the previous versions and reflect the majority of changes following verification. As previously, they are available on the individual tender pages for the relevant category of law.

12 January 2011 - Update on new Schedules for the extended Unified Contract in Family and Family with Housing
Please see the Unified Contract page for more information

17 December – Publication of outcome of tender process
We have today published details of the outcomes of each of the main civil tender processes for the award of Standard Civil Contracts which came into force on 15 November 2010. These are available on the individual tender pages for the relevant category of law. For example, Debt, Housing and Welfare Benefits outcomes can be found under the ‘Social Welfare Law and Family (including Family Mediation)’ link.

Please note that contract validation is still ongoing and a number of contracts are yet to be issued, therefore these lists are subject to change.

For Debt, Housing and Welfare Benefits New Matter Start volumes have been included where the category is held and have been left blank where it is not.

Family and Family with Housing information has not been included at this time but we will publish this information after the next schedule extension.

For Immigration Removal Centre work and Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes, due to the timing of the appeals process, some providers have been issued with transitional contracts for 2 months. Therefore, not all outcomes of these tender processes have yet been finalised and we will publish lists of contract holders in the new year once the appeals process has completed and final awards confirmed.

13 December – Update on progress with 2010 contracts
We have today issued an update on the latest position relating to 2010 contracts. This includes information on the extended Family Unified Contracts, the Standard Civil 2010 Contracts in non family categories and an update on litigation. The update is in the "Latest Updates" part of the documents panel to the right hand side of this page.

19 November 2010 - Notices re Expressions of Interest- Walsall, North Northumberland, and Reading West Berkshire & Wokingham
We have today published notices and forms relating to expressions of interest to deliver debt, housing and welfare benefits services in the above Access Points/Procurement Areas. These notices are available in the documents panel on the right hand side of this page.

12 November 2010 - Update on issuing new contract documentation
We have now issued documentation (contract for signature and schedules) for the new 2010 Standard Civil Contract. Documents have been sent by email.

For you to start work, a signed version of the contract for signature plus any other documentation requested must be returned to us by the deadline set out in the letter. If you have not received your contract documentation please contact your relationship manager.

For more information please see the Update on 2010 Standard Civil Contract Documentation in the "Latest Updates" part of the documents panel on the right hand side of this page.

8 November 2010 - Guidance on completing the Supervisor Self-Declaration Form
Guidance now available in the "Verification" section of the documents panel on the right hand side of this page.

3 November 2010 - outstanding Family appeals
Since the Family tender was quashed on 30 September, we will not be contacting organisations further in relation to the outcome of appeals against decisions relating to the tenders for Family services.

27 October 2010 - LSC will not be appealing against the judgment in the Judicial Review proceedings brought by the Law Society
Please see our published statement for more information.

13 October 2010 - Important update on next steps for civil contracts
Please see our published statement on civil contracts following the outcome of the judicial review.

1 October 2010 - Judicial Review outcome
Please see our published statement on the outcome of the judicial review proceedings brought by the Law Society.

20 September 2010 - Further to our 13 Sept update we have published guidance relating to the extension of the current unified contract which will now end on 14 November. This guidance can be found on the Unified Contract (Civil) pages.

17 September 2010 - Appeals
We've started notifying organisations of the outcome of appeals submitted in relation to our assessment of the Family and SWL selection criteria.

All organisations should receive their appeal outcome by the end of September. Where an appeal is successful it will be reassessed and we'll contact organisations separately about any Matter Start allocation. This process is separate from the verification exercise (see below).

17 September 2010 - Verification exercise
We've had questions from organisations wishing to be allocated any returned Matter Starts the LSC has following the verification process. We can'tconfirm at this stage which procurement areas and access points will have additional Matter Starts available. 

Any revised Matter Start offers will be made after all responses to the verification have been reviewed. Matter Starts will be reallocated in line with the process set out in the Information For Applicants.

13 September 2010 - Contract start dates have been exended to 15 November. On Friday 3 September, the LSC and the Law Society provisionally agreed to a one month extension of the current unified civil contract.  This has been agreed to ensure that there is sufficient time to work through the Judicial Review process effectively. 

Negotiations with the Law Society, ASA and other interested parties are ongoing.  Following the latest discussions, on Monday 6 September, the LSC can confirm:

Further details of the terms and specification of the new contract can be found on the 2010 Standard Civil Contract page.

1 September 2010 – We have today published an updated version of our verification FAQ.  We have taken the opportunity to correct an answer where an incorrect earlier version had been uploaded in response to question 3.2. The new version, v6, is available in the documents panel on the right hand side of the page.

20 August 2010 - Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes notification has started
We have started to notify Applicant Organisations of the final outcome of the tender process for HPCDS work. For further detail on which areas have been notified, please see the Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes update at the top of the Documents panel on the right hand side of this page.

20 August 2010 - Verification process has started
We have started to contact Applicant Organisations who have been awarded contracts asking them to verify information submitted as part of the tender process and submit some additional information. The letter will set out any additional information we need successful applicants to submit, and the timescales. Organisations will be sent this letter through the message board within the PQQ which they responded to. Forms which we may ask for through this verification process, along with a FAQ document on the process, are available in the "Verification" section of the Documents panel on the right hand side of this page.

 

Timetable

Tender Process Current Status
Immigration- mainstream Applicants notified of outcomes
Immigration- IRCs Applicants notified of outcomes
Mental Health- SHAs

Applicants notified of outcomes

Mental Health- HSHs

Applicants notified of outcomes

Social Welfare Law and Family
(including Family Services
Exclusively for Children)

Applicants notified of outcomes.

Child Abduction Services
Family Mediation Services

Applicants notified of outcomes.

Low Volume Categories

Applicants notified of outcomes

Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes Applicants notified of outcomes

 

Notices re tender documents

6 July 2010 - we have today published a Notice of Amendment to the Information for Applicants for the Invitations to Tender to deliver publicly funded Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes. The notice can be found in the documents panel on the right hand side of this page.

17 June 2010- we have today published a Notice of Amendment to the Information for Applicants for the Invitations to Tender to deliver publicly funded Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes. The notice can be found in the documents panel on the right hand side of this page.

 

FAQ Documents- recent Invitations to Tender

FAQ Documents for recent ITTs are available in the Documents section on the right of this page.

Questions on all ITTs must be submitted using the online secure messaging tool within the eTendering System (see Section 9 of the IFA documents for more detail about eTendering). This tool will be available when the ITT opens. The deadlines for submitting questions on all ITTs have now passed.

Questions that we consider to be of wider interest will be collated and answered centrally in writing to ensure that all interested parties have equal access to information in the answers. These questions and answers will be published regularly in Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) documents.

eTendering

All tenders for new contracts must be submitted through the LSC's secure eTendering system. The eTendering site can be accessed through the eTendering portal. If it is your first visit to the site, you will need to register your organisation’s details to be able to use the system – you will be provided with a username and password.

Prepare for the tender - information and resources available

The following information is currently available on the services we are commissioning under 2010 contracts and how to tender :

When the tender process opens, you should also read all tender documents carefully, taking note of all deadlines. The tender documents will be published on our eTendering portal.

Procurement plans - background information on procurement

To give applicants an early indication of our contract requirements we published procurement plans for each area of the country. In January- February 2010 we updated the procurement plans to reflect more recent data on work carried out in these categories of law, and budget decisions for 2010-11. These procurement plans are not part of the formal tender documentation. This will be published when the tender process opens.

Use this table to access procurement plans for different areas by category of law.

 Category of law  Number of procurement plans
Social Welfare Law and Family (including Family Mediation) 134 SWL and Family plans (one for each procurement area) and 1 national plan for Family Mediation
Mental Health 1 national plan
Immigration 1 national plan
Low Volume Categories National information

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Last updated: 31 October 2011

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