Overview
Lots
The Framework is split across 7 Lots:
- Lot 1 - Full Service (England and Wales)
- Lot 2 - Full Service (Scotland)
- Lot 3 - Full Service (Northern Ireland)
- Lot 4 - Investment (UK-wide)
- Lot 5 - Benefit Administration, Employer Bodies and Governance (England and Wales)
- Lot 6 - Benefit Administration, Employer Bodies and Governance (Scotland)
- Lot 7 - Benefit Administration, Employer Bodies and Governance (Northern Ireland)
There are 12 providers on the Framework split across the 7 Lots:
| Provider | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addleshaw Goddard LLP | |||||||
| Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP | |||||||
| Brodies LLP | |||||||
| Burges Salmon | |||||||
| Burness Paull LLP | |||||||
| Cleveland & Co | |||||||
| Eversheds Sutherland | |||||||
| Freeths LLP | |||||||
| Gowling WLG (UK) LLP | |||||||
| Osborne Clarke LLP | |||||||
| Pinsent Masons LLP | |||||||
| Squire Patton Boggs |
FAQs
Procurement can take significant time and money both for the awarding Authority and the Service Provider. The National LGPS Frameworks are fully compliant with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. It reduces the time and costs associated with the procurement process by offering a facility that has already been competitively tendered. It aims to deliver access at the best possible price to high-quality, efficient and effective Legal Services Providers. Benefits include:
- Shortened timescales
- Reduced procurement and legal costs
- Robust and transparent process with high level of due diligence and specialist support
- Agreed Terms and Conditions of contract with providers
- Enable access to specialist providers whose experience and quality has been tested
- Comprehensive user documentation and support from Frameworks team
- Provider ceiling prices established
- Possibility to benefit from cumulative rebates
The Legal Services Framework is available until 15 January 2027.
Please remember if you are using a Framework, your contract award must be completed by the expiry date of the Framework (although contracts let under the Framework can be for longer periods).
No, there is no joining fee to use the Legal Services Framework.
The Framework may be used by:
- Any LGPS administering authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/2356) (as amended) including the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme and Police pension schemes and any of their participating employing Authorities, or in relation to the LGPS in Scotland, any Administering Authority and any of their scheme employers as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (SSI 2018/141) (as amended);
- NILGOSC in Northern Ireland and Employing Authorities as defined in the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 SRNI/188 (as amended);
- The Board of the Pension Protection Fund (http://www.pensionprotectionfund.org.uk)
- Any other Administering Authority or organisation of a public sector pension scheme or any public sector body or that requires pension related services;
- Any common Asset Pool or Collective Investment Vehicle established by or on behalf of an Administering Authority or group of Administering Authorities; or any bodies, organisations or companies established by them for the purpose of operating on a collective basis.
The Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015 apply to the Legal Services Framework, including all call-off contracts let via it.