Early Engagement: Department for Work and Pensions - Provision of Legal Services for the Child Maintenance Service in Scotland- Litigation and Debt Recovery
- Published
- 31 January 2025
- Estimated value
- £5,000,000
- Place of performance
- UK
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 003222-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-04da6d
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 79110000Legal advisory and representation services
Description
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), acting on behalf of the Child Maintenance Service who would be the principal user of the service, wishes to consult with interested suppliers on its outline plan to re-procure its legal service in Scotland. The service is principally required for the Child Maintenance Service but may include occasional ad hoc work for other parts of the DWP on debt recovery or more generic areas of legal advice. Our existing contract with a single supplier will be expiring in August 2025. DWP will be seeking a single supplier to cover the whole of Scotland to provide advice, court representation at Liability Order and Committal (Sanctions) stage together with a wide range of enforcement actions as needed. DWP wishes to consult on the approach to the re-procurement and is particularly interested in engaging with legal firms who are registered to operate in Scotland and have the skills and resource to deliver a large scale, end to end service in close collaboration with the Child Maintenance Service. In addition we will also be seeking to appoint a secondary supplier for a small number of cases that the main supplier is unable to handle eg confli…
Official publications
- FTS · 003222-2025 · 31 January 2025
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