Legal services

Tender description

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the authority intends to put in place a pan government collaborative agreement for the provision of rail legal services to be used by the Department for Transport (DfT), and related organisations, which have a significant programme of rail franchises, major works and projects that require specialist rail legal services. Parliamentary agents may also be required. CCS will work in partnership with DfT and the Government Legal Department (GLD to establish this panel. The potential benefits of such a panel include: — providing a more focused framework to give the market greater availability of work, — ready access to highly experienced rail legal advisers, — choice and competition, driving value for money, — minimising the time and administrative burden to contract work. The lotting structure of this framework will be determined as a result of the market engagement. Further information is included in the Additional Information Section VI.3). Rail legal services.