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Proposals for new civil contract awards
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- Taking forward reforms to civil legal aid services
- Key objectives of the proposals
- Areas covered
- For more information
Taking forward reforms to civil legal aid services
We are consulting on Civil Bid Rounds for 2010 Contracts.
The paper deals with arrangements for the procurement and delivery of civil legal aid services under a new contract.
Key objectives of the proposals
These are to:
- deliver a more integrated service to clients by increasing the proportion of providers offering the full range and breadth of civil legal aid services
- make sure clients are able to reach an appropriate service either locally or through reasonable travel
- award contracts to providers meeting quality thresholds to help safeguard the quality of advice clients receive
- distribute CLS funding within the budget available and ensure appropriate access is achieved, focused on new procurement areas and categories of law where client priorities are identified
- make sure that providers are able to bid for sufficient volumes of work to enable delivery of a full breadth of services that are regularly available and accessible to clients.
Areas covered
- types of services we want to buy
- where services will be delivered
- how we will procure services
- changes to the scope of funding
- key changes to the contract standard terms (covering civil and crime work).
For more information
Respond to the consultation on the CLS > Civil consultation pages.
Last updated: 29 October 2008