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Council legal advice tenders from UK public buyers

Council legal advice tenders open now: 0. In the 12 months to 23 October 2026, UK public buyers published 41 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to Bird & Bird LLP on 2 Sep 2026.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

Council legal advice tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 41 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which council legal advice tenders are open now?

None with a deadline still ahead on 23 October 2026. The twelve-month record below shows how often they appear.

Open notices in the wider subject: Legal advice tenders.

Which buyers publish the most legal advice for council buyers notices?

North Northamptonshire Council, with 3 notices of 41 in the 12 months to 23 October 2026.

  1. North Northamptonshire Council3
  2. Northumberland County Council3
  3. Derbyshire County Council2
  4. London Borough of Havering2
  5. Oxfordshire County Council2
  6. Portsmouth City Council2
  7. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council1
  8. British Council1

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 41 notices in the window, read 23 October 2026.

How many legal advice for council buyers notices are published each month?

About 4 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was December 2025, with 8.

5 of the 16 legal advice for council buyers notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (31%). 0 of the open notices listed above are in it.

Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.

StageNotices
Award26
Contract13
Planning1
Tender1
Stage as the source records it, of 41 notices in the 12 months to 23 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,0001
£25,000 to £100,0005
£100,000 to £500,0008
£500,000 to £2 million2
£2 million or more0
Only the 16 notices that state a GBP value, excluding frameworks, placeholders of £1,000 or less and ceilings of £100 million or more. An estimate in a notice is not a contract value.

Who has won legal advice for council buyers contracts recently?

Kings Chambers won 3 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 2 Sep 2026, Devon County Council recorded an award to Bird & Bird LLP for “CP2829-26 Provision of Legal Advice for the procurement of the Highway Term Maintenance Contract”, at a recorded value of £600,000.

Read the award notice. Published award value

SupplierAward notices won
Kings Chambers3
Derbyshire Law Centre2
BEVAN BRITTAN LLP1
BROWNE JACOBSON LLP1
Bevan Brittan1
Bird & Bird LLP1
Farrer and Co Solicitors1
GOWLING WLG (UK) LLP1
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 39 of 39 award and contract notices in the window. Confirmed award records only. A count of awards, never a sum of spend.

What counts as council legal advice tenders here?

Legal advice tenders published by council buyers: the same title rule as the UK-wide legal advice hub, kept to notices whose buyer the council tenders hub recognises by name. Notices from other buyers with the same subject are on the legal advice hub; the council hub lists every subject.

Classified

This hub is chosen by buyer or place, which the catalogue does not describe, so it uses no classification.

Matched by text

The buyer's name contains one of: legal advice, legal advisory, council, combined authority, borough of, city of [a-z]+ council. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.

  1. Open the official notice

    Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.
  2. Check the dates

    Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.
  3. Check the route to market

    A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.
  4. Look at who won before

    The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.

Read the buyer’s own notice before you spend a day on any of these.

Track council legal advice tenders in one workspace

  1. Nothing open today

    The hub refreshes daily; the twelve-month record below shows how often these notices appear.
  2. North Northamptonshire Council published 3 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 41 in the last 12 months.
  3. Kings Chambers won 3 awards

    The most of any supplier in the 39 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 4 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 41 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many council legal advice tenders are open now?
None on 23 October 2026. In the 12 months before, 41 notices were published.
Where are these notices published?
On Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the UK government's two public notice services. Each notice on this site links to its official record there; read that record and its documents before deciding to bid.
How does a notice get into this hub?
By its title, buyer or stated region matching the hub's rule. Classified notices will be added here when they are published to public pages; a text match is never presented as a classification.
Are EU, Scottish and Welsh portals included?
No. Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are read. EU (TED) notices are never added to these UK counts, and notices that appear only on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales or eTendersNI are not here.

Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.

Sources and method

Read at
23 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
23 October 2025 to 23 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not used for this hub
  • A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
  • Open means a stated deadline still in the future. Tender notices with no stated deadline are listed separately, and only when published in the last 60 days; planning and forecast notices are not counted as open.
  • UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.

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