At a glance
The Legal Aid Agency has awarded £9.6bn across 61 suppliers, with 100 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 19% · 32 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 63% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 3 modifications in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
The Legal Aid Agency is a contracting authority, based in UKI32. Tracks 140 published notices and 136 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
15
Open (bidding)
32
Awarded (90d)
0
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 100 live
All contracts with a published award notice where The Legal Aid Agency is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peer Reviewer | — | 79212200 | £5.0mest. | — | planned |
| 2024 Civil Re-Opening | — | 79100000 | £7.8m | 02 Oct 2024 | active |
| 7781577 | — | 79100000 | — | — | active |
| 2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome | — | 79100000 | £180.0m | 01 Oct 2025 | active |
| 2025 Standard Crime Contract tender outcome | — | £1.8bnest. | — | active | |
| Provision of Contact Centre Services to the Legal Aid Agency | — | 79100000 | £24.4mest. | — | planned |
| Provision of Contact Centre Services to the Legal Aid Agency | — | 79100000 | £24.4mest. | — | planned |
| Provision of Contact Centre Services to the Legal Aid Agency | — | 79100000 | £24.4mest. | — | planned |
| 2026 Criminal Defence Direct (CDD) Contract Award Notice | — | 79100000 | £3.0m | 06 Jan 2026 | active |
| Procurement of Criminal Defence Direct Services from 4 May 2026 | The Johnson Partnership | £2.4m | 06 Jan 2026 | pending |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
Curated leadership roster
Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.
Modifications · 3 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging
We see 3 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.
Compliance & transparency
FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.
FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion
Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.
SME & social value
Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
£149 / seat / month. Configurable peer groups, rolling trendlines, and CSV / PDF exports for board packs.
News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKI32
- Contact
- Gemma Jordan
- civiltenders@justice.gov.uk
Board & accountable officers
Accountable officer + board roster
Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.
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