PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Energy Retail Markets Legal Advice and Services

DESNZ · published 12 Feb 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.

Contracts Finder release ID586cdaee-d7ed-43ee-ab82-f2ef35080f84-825595
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-a3e7022e-82e0-4042-a47e-4aa70c787672
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-309481
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
£1,750,000
award field
Tender value
£1,750,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
British Oversea Territories
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

Provision of legal advice in relation to electricity and gas supplier financial difficulties, insolvencies and subsequent government response which may include, but not be limited to: the Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) process, requirements for a Special Administration Regime (SAR) and wider considerations related to supplier failure and market stability. In the case of a SAR, this would need to be established very quickly, and short notice legal work would be required ahead of the actual initiation of a SAR. Any delay accessing legal support under such circumstances risks a disorderly exit from the market, risking the continued supply of energy to customers, and having wider repercussions on retail and wholesale markets.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release12 Feb 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published22 Nov 2024
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published10 Jan 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published10 Jan 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

Mills & Reeve LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

Published name only

Sharpe Pritchard LLP

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 12 Feb 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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