{"id":74974,"date":"2016-10-13T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c45df3bc7cfbf5558d8a504260b0aebe"},"modified":"2016-10-13T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T10:30:04","slug":"news-story-crime-news-tender-update-on-2017-crime-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74974","title":{"rendered":"News story: Crime news: tender update on 2017 crime contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We have received tenders to carry out publicly-funded criminal legal services from more than 1,400 individual organisations across around 2,100 offices in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) currently has contracts with 1,356 organisations.<\/p>\n<p>We are now in the process of assessing these tenders in line with the timetable published in the Information for Applicants (IFA) document. Contracts will start on 1 April 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"next-steps\">Next steps<\/h3>\n<p>Applicants whose tender is unsuccessful will be notified in the coming weeks. Organisations successfully tendering for a crime contract will be notified in November and required to submit any outstanding verification information.<\/p>\n<p>More detail about the tender timeline, next steps and the process for verifying successful tenders are set out in the IFA document.<\/p>\n<p>All communication from us about your tender will be sent as a message through the eTendering system. You should ensure you continue to monitor the relevant message board.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/legal-aid-crime-tender-2017\">Legal aid crime tender 2017<\/a> \u2013 to download IFA and FAQ<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment of tenders under way for crime contracts starting 1 April 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}