{"id":91564,"date":"2018-05-02T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6d107df433d367e2c8c6ae6f94836fc3"},"modified":"2018-05-02T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:03:40","slug":"news-story-civil-news-2018-cla-contract-discrimination-tender-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91564","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: 2018 CLA contract discrimination tender opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>An opportunity has opened to tender for specialist legal advice in the discrimination category.<\/p>\n<p>This is to deliver work via the Civil Legal Advice (CLA) telephone helpline.<\/p>\n<p>It follows the LAA\u2019s announcement on 5 February that it had cancelled the procurement process for new CLA discrimination services following receipt of insufficient compliant tenders.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"who-can-tender\">Who can tender?<\/h3>\n<p>The tender process is open to both existing contract holders and new entrants. It is a single-stage process that will assess:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>an organisation\u2019s suitability to contract with us<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>their ability to meet our service requirements<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>price<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The LAA has extended the current CLA discrimination contract held by one current provider. That current provider is excluded from taking part in the tender process.<\/p>\n<p>The LAA\u2019s intention is to award up to a further 4 CLA contracts in the discrimination category as a result of the tender process.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-can-i-tender\">How can I tender?<\/h3>\n<p>Tenders must be submitted using the LAA\u2019s e-Tendering system \u2013 see below. A link is also available on the tender pages of the LAA website.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to tender then you must submit a response to the discrimination invitation to tender (ITT).<\/p>\n<p>You may also need to submit a response to the selection questionnaire that forms part of your tender response.<\/p>\n<p>This will be required if your organisation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>did not submit a tender for a face to face contract, Housing Possession Court Duty Scheme contract or a CLA specialist advice contract as part of last year\u2019s main civil 2018 contracts tender process<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>submitted a tender but was excluded at the selection questionnaire stage<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>submitted a tender but has a selection questionnaire response which is no longer valid<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Organisations which tendered successfully as part of the main civil 2018 contracts tender process and whose circumstances have not changed will need to confirm this in their tender response.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"deadline-for-tender-submissions\">Deadline for tender submissions<\/h3>\n<p>All bids must be made through LAA\u2019s e-Tendering system by 5pm on 1 June 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civil-2018-contracts-tender\">Civil 2018 contracts tender<\/a> \u2013 to find out more and download the IFA document<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/legalaid.bravosolution.co.uk\/web\/login.shtml\">e-Tendering system<\/a> \u2013 to submit your tender<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providers have a new opportunity to bid for 2018 Civil Legal Advice discrimination law contract work.<\/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\/91564"}],"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=91564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}