PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome

The Legal Aid Agency · published 19 Dec 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 IDb2bb5570-fba1-463c-b667-41dfc7e9b27c-876949

Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-f0fbcebe-ec47-4898-88ae-5673bdf60938

Buyer identifierGB-CFS-148211

Release typeaward

PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value: £180,000,000
Tender value: £1,800,000,000
Procurement method: Open procedure (below threshold)
Category: services
CPV: 79100000
Delivery: North East, United Kingdom

PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) invited Applicants to submit a Tender for a 2025 Standard Crime Contract ("Crime Contract") to deliver publicly funded criminal legal aid services from 1 October 2025. Applicants wishing to deliver criminal legal aid services under a Crime Contract must submit a response to the SQ for 2025 Standard Crime Contracts - Stage 3 and the 2025 Standard Crime Contract ITT - Stage 3. This application period opened on 01May 2025. The LAA intends that the application period will remain open until on, or around, 30 September 2034, subject to the right of early termination. It is the Applicant's sole responsibility to ensure that it submits a Complete Tender before the Tender Deadline. The procurement processes for the 2025 Standard Crime Contract Stages 1 and 2 have closed. Stage 3 remains open. 1044 providers have been issued contracts across three categories of law to date. The directory of providers has been updated accordingly. This notice publishes the contracts awarded under Stages 1 and 2. Additional information: Please find details of the contracts awarded under the 2025 Standard Crime Contract here:

Tender statuscomplete

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01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release19 Dec 2025
02Tender period endsTender-period field as published30 Sept 2025
03Contract startsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2025
04Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2034

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Published 19 Dec 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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