Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department of Health & Social Care · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Burges Salmon LLP
- Value
- £750,000
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Business services · Legal services (CPV 79100000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Jun 2026
- Published8 Jun 2026Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
The Health Data Research Service (HDRS) is the most ambitious programme of improvement for UK health and care data ever undertaken. Announced by the Prime Minister in April 2025 and supported by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), HDRS is being established to provide a secure, single access point to national-scale health datasets for research, innovation and improved public outcomes. HDRS is currently being incubated by Wellcome as a start-up organisation, with a programme of legal entity incorporation and transfer anticipated during 2026. The organisation will operate across two sites - London and Cambridge - and will serve a wide community of academic, industry, NHS and government stakeholders. HDRS is seeking to appoint a law firm to provide comprehensive legal support across four core workstreams as it builds its organisation from the ground up. External legal support is essential for day 1 operation of…
About the supplier
Burges Salmon LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC307212).