Re-opening: 2024 Standard Civil Contract Procurement Process
Information for organisations interested in delivering legal aid under a 2024 Standard Civil Contract.
Applies to England and Wales
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4 December 2024 – 2024 Standard Civil Contract procurement process re-opens
The LAA has opened a further procurement exercise and inviting additional tenders from organisations that have not previously tendered or did so unsuccessfully. In addition, current 2024 Standard Civil Contract holders who wish to apply for additional offices or categories of law.
This exercise will cover the following Categories of Law:
- Family.
- Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits.
- Immigration and Asylum (including work at Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).
- Mental Health.
- Community Care.
- Claims Against Public Authorities.
- Clinical Negligence.
- Public Law.
- Family Mediation.
- Education; and
- Discrimination.
Current Providers do not need to submit a response to this procurement process unless they wish to apply for new offices or categories of law.
Tenders can be submitted under this procurement process only in the following circumstances:
- an applicant’s tender for a 2024 civil contract was rejected because it failed to verify its Tender by the relevant deadline ; or
- an existing contractor wishes to apply for additional Categories of Law and/or from additional offices/Procurement Areas : or
- a new organisation that has not submitted a bid before.
Tenders must be submitted using the LAA’s eTendering system and must be submitted by 11:59 on 31 December 2025.
Applicants may submit any questions they have via eTendering. Questions that the LAA considers to be of wider interest may be collated and answered centrally as part of the Frequently asked questions (FAQ) document to ensure that all potential Applicants have equal access to information. Applicants may continue to ask questions throughout the Application Period. These will be included in an updated FAQ document which will be published at regular intervals throughout the lifetime of this procurement process. Applicants are advised to consult the most current version of this document when tendering.
Applicants with Technical tender questions should complete the online support form, which can be found at https://jaggaer.my.site.com/suppliersupportrequestmessaging/s/. Alternatively, the telephone number for the helpdesk is 0800 069 8630 and lines are open from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday.
Passporting:
Organisations that previously tendered for 2024 Standard Civil Contract but were unsuccessful will be given “passporting” opportunities where rejection related solely to a failure to provide compliant tender verification information by the relevant deadline. This will only be applied when the following conditions are met:
- An applicant’s contract award was withdrawn because it failed to verify its tender; and
- The Selection Questionnaire (SQ) response remains the same as the original submission(s) for the Standard Civil Contract 2024 Contract (which opened on 13 September 2023 or 18 March 2024); and
- There are no changes to the original Tender
Passported applicants only need to complete the verification process.
You can find further information on the 2024 Contract at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/standard-civil-contract-2024
Previous Updates
11 November 2024 - Headline intentions for re-opening the 2024 Standard Civil Contract procurement process published
A headline intentions document is now available from the ‘documents’ section above. It sets out our approach for the re-opening of the 2024 Standard Civil Contract procurement process.
The procurement process will open on 4 December 2024.