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2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome
Historical: no longer open for bids.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £180,000,000Framework ceiling or programme total, not a contract value
- Deadline (UK time)
- Tue 30 Sep 2025, 23:59 BSTA deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Tue 30 Sep 2025, 23:59 BST, which is not an open deadline.
- Published
- 29 Jul 2026
- Region
- North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Wales, Northern Ireland
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
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 April to June 2026.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 79100000
- 79000000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
One release held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 29 Jul 2026Contract notice
Contract notice published 29 July 2026.
Release e61db41a-54b1-4126-9393-b8ab9c7b4e10
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05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- The stated value is a ceiling or programme total.
- Only one release is held, so there is no change history.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Tender hubs
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08/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- e61db41a-54b1-4126-9393-b8ab9c7b4e10
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Stage
- contract · Contract
- Last verified
- Fri 31 Jul 2026, 01:02 BST
- Read at
- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 10:18 BST
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