Awarded contract

External Legal Services

Details

Value
£870,000
Duration
3 years
Topic
Legal services
Published
10 November 2025

Tender description

This requirement is for external legal services following a further competition under the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Framework Agreement (RM240), Public Sector Legal Services, under Lot 1A: Full-Service Provision. The University is seeking to establish a multi-supplier Call-Off Contract to support its in-house legal team, under six (6) services categories. Service Category 1: Construction and Property Service Category 2: Litigation Service Category 3: International Legal Advice Service Category 4: Employment Law Service Category 5: Higher Education Law Service Category 6: Public Sector Procurement

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date3 November 2025
  2. Completed: Award published10 November 2025
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

University of Portsmouth is a higher education provider, buying through a centralised procurement and contracting team in its Finance department. The University is a member of the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC), a major framework body for UK higher education. SUPC membership also gives access to London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) frameworks. Transactional purchasing also runs alongside this centralised function within professional services.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Portsmouth's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, software and information systems and IT services.

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