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ClosedStage · tender

Invest NI

DfE- Invest NI Legal Service Framework

Business ServicesCPV 79100000
Value£1.5m
Deadline25 Sept 2025
Published27 Aug 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 27 Aug 2025ClosedCloses 25 Sept 2025
Who to contact
SSDAdmin.CPD@finance-ni.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

Tenders must be submitted electronically via the relevant Call for Tender (CfT) opportunity on eTendersNI, website details immediately below. Paper submissions will not be accepted or considered and will be rejected by the Contracting Authority / Buyer. The tender documents are available with unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: URL https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps

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Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.7m

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.

When this comes round again

Invest NI has published 9 Business Services notices, about every 7 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around December 2026.

44% of Invest NI’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Invest NI intends to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of legal services to provide advice in relation to the following areas of law : 1.

Contracts, 2.

Corporate Finance, Debt Recovery and Finance, 3.

Commercial Property, Real Estate and Construction, 4.

Venture Capital and Corporate Law, 5.

Intellectual Property, 6.

Data Protection and Information Law, 7.

Employment Law Equality and Human Rights, 8.

Competition Law (including Subsidy Control and State Aid), 9.

Procurement Law, 10.

Administrative and Public Law, 11.Energy, Natural Resources and Climate Change , and 12.

Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Invest NI intends to establish a Framework

Invest NI intends to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of legal services to provide advice in relation to the following areas of law : 1.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
Invest NI intends to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of legal services to provide advice in relation to the following areas of law : 1.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058e82
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
051573-2025
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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