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NATIONAL ENERGY SYSTEM OPERATOR LIMITED
Legal Services Framework
Historical: no longer open for bids.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £25,400,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Thu 6 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMTClosed.
- Published
- 1 Oct 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
NESO is looking to procure a broad range of Legal Services, including energy and regulatory law by a multi-lot framework agreement for Legal Services (in accordance with the Act) with an initial term of 3 years (+1+1 possible extension).
NESO is looking to set up a 2-lot Legal Services framework agreement following the Competitive Flexible Procedure:
• Lot 1 - Energy Regulation and frameworks - specialist Legal Services
• Lot 2 - General Legal Services
An overview of the disciplines required is covered in Table 1 below.
LOT 1 - ENERGY REGULATION & FRAMEWORKS
1 Electricity/ gas codes
2 Electricity connections
3 Balancing services (electricity)
4 Electricity interconnectors
5 Electricity Market Reform
6 Network competition
7 Gas markets
8 Developing/adapting to new energy legal frameworks
9 Licence change, investigations and other regulatory issues
10 Public Investigation and inquiry processes
11 Planning and major infrastructure projects
12 Information management (energy)
13 Public Law (energy)
14 Competition law and dawn raids (energy)
15 Litigation (energy)
LOT 2 - GENERAL SERVICES
1 General commercial and transactions
2 Public procurement
3 Technology expertise (including Cyber Security, AI, ICT & IoT)
4 Innovation
5 Commercial property/ construction
6 Corporate
7 Finance
8 Intellectual Property (including trademark and patent services)
9 Health, safety and environmental
10 Employment
11 Pensions
12 Insurance (including insurance claims)
13 Information Management (non-energy)
14 Public Law (non-energy)
15 Competition law & dawn raids (non-energy)
16 Litigation (non-energy)
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
5 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 23 May 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 23 May 2025.
Release 026229-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 16 Jul 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 16 July 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 040667-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 1 Oct 2025Tender notice
Tender notice published 1 October 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Deadline in this release: Thu 6 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT.
Release 061198-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 15 Jan 2026Notice
Notice published 15 January 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 003658-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 25 Feb 2026Award notice
Award notice published 25 February 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 017069-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
08/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-052237
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Framework
- Yes, as recorded by the source
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 21:15 BST
- Read at
- Thu 22 Oct 2026, 22:05 BST
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