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Staffordshire County Council

Solicitors for the conveyancing for purchase of Francis House

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£60k
Awarded19 May 2025
Published22 Oct 2025
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£60ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Business Services band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

To provide conveyancing and legal advice to the Staffordshire Pension fund on the purchase of a significant office property in Francis House, London for a purchase price of £55m.

I the property is freehold and will be a TOGC.

Derwent London comprehensively reconfigured and refurbished the property in 2021/2022 having pre-let most of the building (comprising the majority of the Ground Floor, and the entire 1st - 4th Floors) to Daniel J Edelman Ltd (0.69 Ha).

The entire building is currently 100% let and occupied as Offices.

Services to include; • Full title, construction and planning due diligence. • Negotiating the contract and transfer • Advising on the SDLT and VAT position • Preparing a full transaction report • Inputting into any pension fund approval processes • Liaising with your other professional advisers including the managing agent • Submitting any SDLT (subject to receipt of relevant funds) • Registering the acquisition at the Land Registry

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To provide conveyancing and legal advice

To provide conveyancing and legal advice to the Staffordshire Pension fund on the purchase of a significant office property in Francis House, London for a purchase price of £55m.

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Source & provenance
OCID
355e5c23-3b88-4058-830d-a067d9717b3f
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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