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ATTAIN HEALTH MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD

Provision of legal advice and counsel to NHS Essex Integrated Care Board for the duration of an independent statutory inquiry

Business ServicesCPV 79100000 79110000 79111000 79140000
Value£2.8m
Awarded31 Mar 2026
Published30 Apr 2026
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£2.8mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£3.0m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Contracting Authority (NHS Essex Integrated Care Board) has awarded a compliant Call-Off Contract to Mills and Reeve for provision of legal services under the NHS Commercial Solutions Framework Agreement for the provision of Legal Services (Agreement Reference Number: 5324-4903), in accordance with the Framework's specific guidance and rules.

This is an NHS approved Framework for Legal Services.

The scope of this service is continuity of existing provision of legal advice and counsel to NHS Essex Integrated Care Board for the duration of an independent statutory inquiry investigating the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023 (the Lampard Inquiry).

The contract will run for 24 months commencing 01st April 2026 and expiring 31st March 2028.

The aggregate contract value awarded is £2,785,134 excluding VAT.

This Contract Award Notice is being published in accordance with the requirements for sub-central contracting authorities, NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts where the contract value is at least £30,000 inclusive of VAT in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015, which govern the Framework Agreement his Call-Off Contract is associated with.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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The scope of this service is continuity

The scope of this service is continuity of existing provision of legal advice and counsel to NHS Essex Integrated Care Board for the duration of an independent statutory inquiry investigating the deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023 (the Lampard Inquiry).

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1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
…HS Essex Integrated Care Board) has awarded a compliant Call-Off Contract to Mills and Reeve for provision of legal services under the NHS Commercial Solutions Framework Agreement for the provision of Legal Services (Agreement Reference Number: 5324-4903), in accordance with the Framework's specific guidance a…

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