Crown Commercial Service selects 58 firms for £200m “wider public sector” legal services framework
The Crown Commercial Service has appointed 58 law firms to its public sector legal services framework worth an estimated £200m over four years.
The contract’s primary focus is to procure legal services for the ‘wider public sector’, which includes health, education, local and regional government, emergency services, and third sector and social housing organisations.
The contract is divided into the following lots:
- Lot 1a - Full Service Provision (FSP) - England & Wales
- Lot 1b - Full Service Provision (FSP) - Scotland
- Lot 1c - Full Service Provision (FSP) - Northern Ireland
- Lot 2a - General Service Provision (GSP) - England & Wales
- Lot 2b - General Service Provision (GSP) - Scotland
- Lot 2c - General Service Provision (GSP) - Northern Ireland
- Lot 3 - Full Service Transport/Rail
The successful firms are:
- Addleshaw Goddard (Lots: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3)
- Anderson Strathern (Lots: 1b, 2b)
- A&L Goodbody (Lots: 1c, 2c)
- Arthur Cox (Lots: 1c, 2c)
- Ashfords (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Ashurst (Lots: 3)
- BDB Pitmans (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Bevan Brittan (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Birketts (Lots: 2a)
- Bird & Bird (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Blake Morgan (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Brabners (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Brodies (Lots: 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b)
- Browne Jacobson (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Burges Salmon (Lots: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3)
- Burness Paull (Lots: 1b, 2b)
- Capital Law Limited (Lots: 2a)
- Capsticks Solicitors (Lots: 2a)
- Carson McDowell (Lots: 1c, 2c)
- Cater Leydon Millard (Lots: 2a)
- Cleaver Fulton Rankin (Lots: 1c, 2c)
- Cleveland Scott York (Lots: 2a)
- Clyde & Co (Lots: 2a, 2b, 2c)
- CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Lots: 1b, 2a, 2b)
- DAC Beachcroft (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Davitt Jones Bould (Lots: 2a)
- Deloitte (Lots: 2a)
- DLA Piper UK (Lots: 3)
- DWF Law (Lots: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3)
- Eversheds Sutherland (International) (Lots: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3)
- Forbes Solicitors (Lots: 2a)
- Freeths (Lots: 1a, 2a, 3)
- Gowling WLG (UK) (Lots: 1a, 2a, 3)
- Harrison Clark Rickerbys (Lots: 2a)
- Hempsons (Lots: 2a)
- Hill Dickinson (Lots: 2a)
- Hugh James (Lots: 2a, 3)
- Judge & Priestley (Lots: 2a)
- K&L Gates (Lots: 2a)
- Keoghs (Lots: 2a, 2b, 2c)
- Kingsley Napley (Lots: 2a)
- Michelmores (Lots: 2a)
- Mills and Reeve (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Morton Fraser (Lots: 1b, 2b)
- Osborne Clarke (Lots: 2a)
- Pinsent Masons (Lots: 1a, 1b)
- Plexus Law (Lots: 2a, 2b)
- Sharpe Pritchard (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Shepherd and Wedderburn (Lots: 2a, 2b)
- Shoosmiths (Lots: 2a, 2b, 2c)
- TLT (Lots: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 2c)
- Trowers & Hamlins (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Tughans (Lots: 1c, 2c)
- Veale Wasbrough Vizards (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Walker McDonald (Lots: 2c)
- Ward Hadaway (Lots: 1a, 2a)
- Weightmans (Lots: 3)
- Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP (Lots: 1a, 2a)
The contract began last week (September 6) and is scheduled to end in September 2026.
Seventy-one providers, including Hampshire County Council, were appointed to the previous CSS public sector legal services framework in November 2018. This was estimated to be worth £272m at the time.
John Houlden, a partner at Burges Salmon – one of the three firms that was appointed to all available lots – commented on the appointment: “We are proud to have secured this prestigious appointment, which builds on our recent instructions from the CCS and further demonstrates our deep-rooted credentials in the Public Sector.”
Ioan Prydderch, partner and Head of Public Sector at Hugh James (appointed to lots 2a and 3), said: “We are delighted with this appointment, which is testament to the breadth, depth and quality of support that we can provide to the public, third and social housing sectors in England and Wales. The public sector has been a key focus for the firm for many years and we are pleased that an even greater number of public sector clients will now be able to access our expertise via our place on the framework.”
Adam Carey