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2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome

Historical · AwardedNo open deadline

Historical: no longer open for bids.

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value: £1,800,000,000Framework 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: 20 Oct 2026
Region: North East

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 July to September 2026.

Additional information:

Please find details of the contracts awarded under the 2025 Standard Crime Contract here:

03/ Classification

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.

79100000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

2 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.

20 Oct 2026
Award notice
Award notice published 20 October 2026.
Deadline in this release: Tue 30 Sep 2025, 23:59 BST.
Release b9c6e89e-5d12-4ff4-8c19-15795df8f235-918443
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20 Oct 2026
Contract notice
Contract notice published 20 October 2026. The source does not state what changed.
Release cf-v2:50091d6da60615a44a22c3e8b2544caf6857dda0bd3ffd72b89e34e50ac9a967
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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

The stated value is a ceiling or programme total.

06/ Questions

About this notice

The Legal Aid Agency published this notice.

Framework ceiling or programme total, not a contract value: £1,800,000,000.

07/ Tender hubs

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Where to go next

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Reference: b9c6e89e-5d12-4ff4-8c19-15795df8f235
Source: Contracts Finder
Stage: award · Awarded
Last verified: Thu 22 Oct 2026, 07:14 BST
Read at: Fri 23 Oct 2026, 04:59 BST

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