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2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome

Historical · ContractNo open deadline

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.

  1. 29 Jul 2026
    Contract notice

    Contract notice published 29 July 2026.

    Release e61db41a-54b1-4126-9393-b8ab9c7b4e10

    View this release on Contracts Finder (opens in a new tab)

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

The Legal Aid Agency published this notice.

Framework ceiling or programme total, not a contract value: £180,000,000.

08/ Related

Where to go next

These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.

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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