{"id":87722,"date":"2018-01-04T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f87390a5a4c7c12eddb813717d738a71"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T12:59:41","slug":"news-story-civil-news-next-steps-in-2018-civil-contracts-tender-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87722","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: next steps in 2018 civil contracts tender process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We are contacting organisations from 4 January 2018 with updates and guidance on next steps about their bids for 2018 civil contracts work.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the closure of tenders for Civil Legal Advice (CLA) and face to face contracts on 10 November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>We will be advising organisations that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bid for a face to face contract but whose application failed to reach the minimum threshold to be given further consideration<\/li>\n<li>have been successful in bidding for face to face contracts in the Housing &amp; Debt category<\/li>\n<li>have been shortlisted for a CLA contract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notifications for the remaining categories will follow in due course.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-will-these-announcements-be-made\">How will these announcements be made?<\/h3>\n<p>We will formally write to each affected organisation using the e-Tendering system, advising them of the status of their tenders, in the week beginning 2 January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>We anticipate that all notifications will have been sent out by Wednesday 10 January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants bidding for face to face housing and debt contracts who have not been notified by 10 January should contact us through the e-Tendering message board.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-about-notifications-for-other-categories\">What about notifications for other categories?<\/h3>\n<p>We will notify applicants who have bid for other face to face categories of law in March 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"when-will-new-contracts-begin\">When will new contracts begin?<\/h3>\n<p>Services under new face to face and CLA contracts will begin on 1 September 2018. Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme (HPCDS) contracts will follow on 1 October 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-long-will-the-contracts-last\">How long will the contracts last?<\/h3>\n<p>Each contract will initially run until 31 August 2021, with an option for the Legal Aid Agency to extend for up to a further 2 years.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-will-happen-next\">What will happen next?<\/h3>\n<p>We will continue to consider tenders in line with the process set out in the Information for Applicants (IFA).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"provider-enquiries\">Provider enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>Update concerning announcement published on GOV.UK Legal Aid Civil Tender 2018 page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civil-2018-contracts-tender\">Civil 2018 contracts tender<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations will be advised of the status of their tenders in early January.<\/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\/87722"}],"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=87722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}