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Scottish Water

Provision of Legal Services

Business ServicesCPV 79100000
Value£15.2m
Deadline11 Aug 2026
Published10 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 10 Jul 202629 days leftCloses 11 Aug 2026
Who to contact
Amy Phillips
amy.phillips@scottishwater.co.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£15.2mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£16.4m

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.

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The brief

Scottish Water is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of a comprehensive range of legal services to support its statutory, operational, regulatory and commercial functions.<br/>The Framework will provide access to specialist legal expertise across four service lots and will support Scottish Water in delivering major capital investment programmes, operational activities, regulatory obligations, governance responsibilities and strategic corporate objectives.

The appointed framework suppliers will be required to provide high-quality legal advice, transactional support, dispute resolution services and representation where required, within a complex and highly regulated public sector environment operating substantially under Scots Law.<br/><br/>The Framework is divided into the following Lots:<br/>Lot 1 – Land and Property Legal Services<br/>Lot 2 – Commercial Legal Services<br/>Lot 3 – Litigation and Employment Legal Services<br/>Lot 4 – Governance, Corporate and Regulatory Legal Services<br/><br/>Framework Duration<br/>The Framework Agreement will be established for an initial period of four (4) years, with the option for Scottish Water, at its sole discretion, to extend the Framework for up to two (2) additional periods of two (2) years, giving a maximum potential term of eight (8) years.<br/><br/>Estimated values are exclusive of payments made to third parties.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Scottish Water is seeking to establish

Scottish Water is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of a comprehensive range of legal services to support its statutory, operational, regulatory and commercial functions.

02

The Framework will provide access to specialist

The Framework will provide access to specialist legal expertise across four service lots and will support Scottish Water in delivering major capital investment programmes, operational activities, regulatory obligations, governance responsibilities and strategic corporate objectives.

03

The appointed framework suppliers will be required

The appointed framework suppliers will be required to provide high-quality legal advice, transactional support, dispute resolution services and representation where required, within a complex and highly regulated public sector environment operating substantially under Scots Law.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
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Source
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Buyer ref
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