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Legal Services Contract

Forestry England for and on behalf of the Forestry Commission · published 31 Jul 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

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Contracts Finder release ID11c4e1b2-b8a7-4a45-802a-026f4ef598e5-857062
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-eafdf008-218e-4368-aa8d-38302d0ea45d
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-214115
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£5,000,000
award field
Tender value
£5,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

We will be awarding a contract for the provision of Legal Services to the Forestry Commission. All arms of the Forestry Commission (Forestry England, Forest Services, Forest Research) will have access to utilise the services under the contract. As the most regular and largest user of Legal Services, Forestry England are managing the procurement of this contract. Our intention is to award this contract for a period of 5 years.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release31 Jul 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published10 Feb 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Mar 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published28 Feb 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

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Published name only

Mills & Reeve LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

Published name only

Weightmans LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

Published name only

Weightmans LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 31 Jul 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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