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National LGPS Framework for Legal Services

Business ServicesCPV 79100000

Value£40.0m

Deadline16 Oct 2026

Published22 May 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 22 May 202648 days leftCloses 16 Oct 2026

Who to contact

sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically via In-Tend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/Home to the above mentioned address

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£40.0mtotal contract value

median £66k

this tender£0£43.2m

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

Norfolk County Council publishes Business Services work continuously — 72 notices, roughly one every 24 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

15% of Norfolk County Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Norfolk County Council on its own behalf and on behalf of the Pension Funds listed below wish to let a Multi-Provider Framework Agreement for the provision of specialist support for pension legal services primarily in the support of The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). - City of Edinburgh Council (as Administering Authority for Lothian Pension Fund) - LGPS Central Ltd Wolverhampton - Local Pensions Partnership Investments Ltd (LPPI) - City of Wolverhampton Council (as Administering Authority of the West Midlands Pension Fund) - Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC) - Staffordshire County Council (as Administering Authority for Staffordshire Pension Fund) This framework may also be used by: - Any LGPS administering authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/2356) (as amended) including the Firefighters' Pension Scheme and Police Pension Schemes and any of their participating employing authorities, or in relation to the LGPS in Scotland, any administering authority and any of their scheme employers as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/141) (as amended), - NILGOSC in Northern Ireland and employing authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (SRNI 2014/188) (as amended), - The Board of the Pension Protection Fund. - Any other administering authority or scheme manager of a public-sector pension scheme or any public-sector body that requires pensions related services, and - Any LGPS Fund(s) or groups of funds, or any bodies, organisations or companies established by them for the purpose of operating on a collective basis.

This Framework will be split into Lots.

Please note the estimated values are across all lots.

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

Norfolk County Council on its own behalf and on behalf of the Pension Funds listed below wish to let a Multi-Provider Framework Agreement for the provision of specialist support for pension legal services primarily in the support of The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

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.

What it takes to bid this

45–80 daysof bid-team effort

£30.8k–£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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