Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- DLA Piper UK LLP SME
- Value
- £120,000
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Business services · Legal advisory services (CPV 79111000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date7 Aug 2025
- Published18 Sep 2025Published 42 days after the contract date
Description
To appoint an industry led PRO which will be delegated relevant functions by PackUK to support with ongoing delivery of the pEPR scheme. Legal support is required to assist with the appointment process of a PRO. There are four main phases to the work: • Prepare the proposed conditions of appointment • Prepare the appointment process • Run the appointment process and select the candidate PROs • Confirm conditions of appointment and appoint the PRO As PackUK and the 4 nations agree which functions are to be delegated to the PRO and in which years, these will in turn need to be set out in conditions of appointment. The greater the responsibilities delegated to the PRO, the more robust the appointment process will need to be, so legal support will be used to assist with the design, drafting of application documentation, and the subsequent assessment of applications. Given the possibility of multiple applications, Defra is working on the basis that a clear, transparent and rigorous assessm…
About the supplier
DLA Piper UK LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC307847).