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Civil News: Further tender for Housing and HLPAS 2024 Contract

A further opportunity to tender for the 2024 Standard Civil Contract opened on 11 July 2024, for Housing, Debt and Welfare Benefits and limited HLPAS areas.

Organisations do not need to submit a response to this procurement process where they:

  • have been notified of a successful outcome of their 2024 Standard Civil Contract Tender in Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits through the eTendering message board; and
  • are not seeking to deliver Contract Work in Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits from additional offices/Procurement Areas; and/or
  • do not wish to deliver HLPAS in Barnstaple, Torquay, Newton Abbot, or Boston, Lincoln.

This procurement exercise will be open to bids in the Housing and Debt and Welfare Benefits Categories of Law only.

It includes an opportunity to also tender to deliver the Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service (HLPAS) in Barnstaple, Torquay, Newton Abbot, and Boston, Lincoln only.

Next steps

This additional procurement exercise opened on 11 July 2024 and has a closing deadline of 17:00 on 25 July 2024.

Why is this happening?

The Legal Aid Agency is seeking to identify additional providers in the Housing, Debt and Welfare Benefits Categories of Law in addition to two HLPAS areas.

Further information

Below is a link to the 2024 Standard Civil Contract and the tender documentation which you can download and review:

Standard civil contract 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Civil 2024 Contract Procurement Process - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Updates to this page

Published 11 July 2024