Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Mining Remediation Authority · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Browne Jacobson LLP
- Value
- £2,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Legal services (CPV 79100000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 035837-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Mar 2026
- Published20 Apr 2026Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of legal services to cover including Commercial matters: procurement advice, advice in relation to conditions of contract, disputes arising out of contracts, contract management questions. Litigation: subsidence claims, lands tribunal cases, common law litigation, personal injury, judicial review challenges Property matters: sales of surplus property, acquisitions for mine water treatment schemes, leases for boreholes, release of restrictive covenants, clawback Advice in relation to Freedom of Information requests, Environmental Information Regulations External enquiries received from members of the public on title/property matters Advice on property matters/commercial Data Licensing HR advice and Other legal matters as required
About the supplier
Browne Jacobson LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC306448).