2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome
key details
| Value | £1,800,000,000 |
|---|---|
| Status | complete |
| Category (CPV) | 79100000 |
| Region | North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, Wales, Northern Ireland |
| Deadline | 30 Sept 2025 |
| Contract start | 1 Oct 2025 |
| Contract end | 30 Sept 2034 |
| Procedure | open |
| SME suitable | Yes |
| OCID | ocds-b5fd17-f0fbcebe-ec47-4898-88ae-5673bdf60938 |
Award
| Supplier | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple Suppliers | £180,000,000 | 30 Sept 2025 | active |
description
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) invited Applicants to submit a Tender for a 2025 Standard Crime Contract ("Crime Contract") to deliver publicly funded criminal legal aid services from 1 October 2025.
Applicants wishing to deliver criminal legal aid services under a Crime Contract must submit a response to the SQ for 2025 Standard Crime Contracts - Stage 3 and the 2025 Standard Crime Contract ITT - Stage 3.
This application period opened on 01May 2025. The LAA intends that the application period will remain open until on, or around, 30 September 2034, subject to the right of early termination.
It is the Applicant's sole responsibility to ensure that it submits a Complete Tender before the Tender Deadline.
The procurement processes for the 2025 Standard Crime Contract Stages 1 and 2 have closed. Stage 3 remains open. 1044 providers have been issued contracts across three categories of law to date. The directory of providers has been updated accordingly.
This notice publishes the contracts awarded under Stages 1 and 2.
Additional information:
Please find details of the contracts awarded under the 2025 Standard Crime Contract here:
documents
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6f276e4c-6af3-4b9a-8221-5e2497e35819 , tenderNotice
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/crime-contract-2025-tender
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notice history
3 notices published against this procurement.
| Published | Type | Regime | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2025 | Tender (tender) | · | 6f276e4c-6af3-4b9a-8221-5e2497e35819-843561 |
| 19 Dec 2025 | Award (award) | · | b2bb5570-fba1-463c-b667-41dfc7e9b27c-876949 |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Award (award) | · | e61f3dd8-d220-4b25-b663-4820ade72df1-895268 |
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