On 26.9.2017 the Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) invited tenders to provide the LAA’s publicly funded telephone-based Civil Legal Advice (“CLA”) Contract Work from 1.9.2018.

Further to the LAA’s announcement on 5.2.2018 that the procurement process for new CLA discrimination services had been cancelled following receipt of insufficient compliant tenders, the LAA is inviting tenders in the Discrimination Category of Law in this procurement process, referred to in this document as the “Supplemental CLA Procurement Process” or “this procurement process”.

Under the Supplemental CLA Procurement Process the LAA is inviting responses from Applicants to its Invitation To Tender (“ITT”) for the delivery of publicly funded civil legal aid services from 1.9.2018 under a 2018 Civil Legal Advice Contract (also referred to in this document as “CLA Contract” or “Contract”).

On 26.9.2017 the Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) invited tenders to provide the LAA’s publicly funded telephone-based Civil Legal Advice (“CLA”) Contract Work from 1.9.2018.

Further to the LAA’s announcement on 5 February 2018 that the procurement process for new CLA discrimination services had been cancelled following receipt of insufficient compliant tenders, the LAA is inviting tenders in the Discrimination Category of Law in this procurement process, referred to in this document as the “Supplemental CLA Procurement Process” or “this procurement process”.

Under the Supplemental CLA Procurement Process the LAA is inviting responses from Applicants to its Invitation To Tender (“ITT”) for the delivery of publicly funded civil legal aid services from 1.9.2018 under a 2018 Civil Legal Advice Contract (also referred to in this document as “CLA Contract” or “Contract”)

The LAA intends to award up to a further 4 CLA Contracts in the Discrimination Category as a result of this procurement process. The LAA reserves the right to award fewer than 4 additional contracts.

An Applicant can only be awarded one CLA Contract in the Discrimination Category.