Purchasing organisation eyes national framework agreement for legal services

A leading purchasing organisation has issued a prior information notice on the potential procurement of a nationwide legal services framework.

YPO said the framework agreement would cover the wider public sector and a range of practice areas.

The organisation said it was “seeking to undertake early supplier engagement with providers of legal services to understand the market and the need for a nationwide legal services framework agreement.

“YPO are therefore looking for providers who would be interested in taking part in early engagement discussions with us to register an interest by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..”

The purchasing organisation, which is 100% publicly owned, has 100 frameworks and approximately 30,000 products in its range.