PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome

The Legal Aid Agency · published 28 Apr 2026. 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 IDe61f3dd8-d220-4b25-b663-4820ade72df1-895268
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-065f9c70-cad3-482a-bb39-a160f8f018c9
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-148211
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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Award value
£180,000,000
award field
Tender value
£1,800,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Open procedure (below threshold)
Category
services
CPV
79100000
Legal services
Delivery
North East, United Kingdom
No postcode
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. This notice publishes the contracts awarded under Stage 3 from December 2025 to March 2026. Additional information: Please find details of the contracts awarded under the 2025 Standard Crime Contract here:

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release28 Apr 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published30 Sept 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published30 Sept 2034
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 28 Apr 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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