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Liverpool City Council

Legal Services support for academisations

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£120k
Awarded23 Dec 2024
Published10 Jul 2025
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£120ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

All LA maintained schools can voluntarily apply to become an academy.

RI schools that are not deemed to be making sufficient progress can become subject of a DfE Academy Order.

Once the decision is made to progress with an academisation, the Department for Education will issue the City Council with an instruction to commence and engage with the process.

It is a statutory duty to comply.

The specific areas the Council must undertake are listed below: 1.

Guidance on all matters relating to the conversion process 2.

Undertake all works associated with the completion of the Commercial Transfer Agreement, ensuring the statutory duties of Liverpool City Council are discharged 3.

Undertake all works associated with the completion of the Land Registry (TP1), ensuring the statutory duties of Liverpool City Council are discharged 4.

Any other legal work to ensure the successful and timely completion of the conversion process Legal Services within the City Council does not have the resources to undertake the legal work associated with academy conversions.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

It is a statutory duty to comply

It is a statutory duty to comply.

02

The specific areas the Council must undertake

The specific areas the Council must undertake are listed below:.

03

Any other legal work to ensure

Any other legal work to ensure the successful and timely completion of the conversion process.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
1c15ed2d-8b62-48eb-9d9b-3bcae134efe3
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
LPOOL001-DN758199-44451851
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