TfL 96455 TfL Legal Panel Framework

A Contract Award Notice
by TRANSPORT FOR LONDON

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Framework (Services)
Duration
4 year (est.)
Value
£10M-£24M
Sector
BUSINESS
Published
09 Oct 2025
Delivery
To 09 Oct 2029 (est.)
Deadline
n/a

Concepts

Location

London

Geochart for 2 buyers and 44 suppliers

Description

Transport for London (TfL) as the Contracting Authority has put in place a Framework Agreement for Legal Services with 18 law firms across 8 lots. The firms have the requisite resources, expertise and experience to advise Transport for London, the Greater London Authority and its other functional bodies (the 'GLA Group'). Lot 1 - Employment Law Lot 2 - Major commercial matters Lot 3 - Rail industry matters Lot 4 - Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious) Lot 5 - Housing matters Lot 6 - Complex property and commercial development matters Lot 7 - Major consents matters Lot 8 - Town and country planning and highways matters The Framework Agreement will be in place for four years with an option to extend for two further years at the sole discretion of TfL.

Lot Division

1 Employment Law

Legal support on contentious and non-contentious employment matters including tribunal cases (from the point of outsourcing to conclusion of the case), EAT appeals and specialist advice on industrial relations matters (including strategy, disputes and change programmes) and immigration. This Lot will be awarded to one supplier because consistency of treatment of all employment related matters is imperative to ensure that any policy work undertaken and advice given fits seamlessly with the operational requirements of the business.

Award Criteria
Technical 65.0
Social value 5.0
PRICE 30.0
2 Major commercial matters

Legal support on contentious and non-contentious aspects of significant infrastructure projects and other large scale and/or complex contracts.

Award Criteria
Technical 65.0
Social Value 5.0
PRICE 30.0
3 Rail industry matters

Legal support on matters specific to the rail industry including industry specific agreements and regulatory issues covering commercial and real estate matters whether contentious or non-contentious.

Award Criteria
Technical 65.0
Social value 5.0
PRICE 30.0
4 Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious)

Legal support for routine and high volume commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious matters) including compulsory purchase compensation and implementation matters, falling outside lots 3, 6, 7 and 8.

Award Criteria
Technical 60.0
Social value 5.0
PRICE 35.0
5 Housing matters

Legal support for housing matters (including legal support in relation to the Mayor's major funding programmes for housing and regeneration and building safety, negotiating grant and loan agreements and advising on wider housing policy issues).

Award Criteria
Technical 65.0
Social value 5.0
PRICE 30.0
6 Complex property and commercial development matters

Legal support for large scale commercial developments and projects, operational and commercial property matters and regeneration.

Award Criteria
Technical 65.0
Social value 5.0
PRICE 30.0
7 Major consents matters

Legal support for major consents matters (including compulsory purchase compensation and implementation matters).

Award Criteria
Technical 65.0
Social value 5.0
PRICE 30.0
8 Town and country planning and highways matters

Legal support for town and country planning and highways matters (including compulsory purchase compensation and implementation matters).

Award Criteria
Technical 65.0
Social value 5.0
PRICE 30.0

Award Detail

1 Eversheds Sutherland (London)
  • Employment Law
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 3
  • Value: £10,000,000
2 Addleshaw Goddard (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
3 Ashurst (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
4 Bird & Bird (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
5 Burges Salmon (Bristol)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
6 Eversheds Sutherland (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
7 Gowling WLG (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
8 Herbert Smith Freehills (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
9 K&L Gates (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
10 Sharpe Pritchard LLP & Mills & Reeve (London)
  • Major commercial matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £24,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
  • Contractor is an SME.
11 Addleshaw Goddard (London)
  • Rail industry matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £6,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
12 Ashurst (London)
  • Rail industry matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £6,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
13 Burges Salmon (Bristol)
  • Rail industry matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £6,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
14 Eversheds Sutherland (London)
  • Rail industry matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £6,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
15 Stephenson Harwood (London)
  • Rail industry matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £6,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
16 Addleshaw Goddard (London)
  • Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious)
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £30,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
17 Eversheds Sutherland (London)
  • Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious)
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £30,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
18 Freeths (Nottingham)
  • Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious)
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £30,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
19 Gowling WLG (London)
  • Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious)
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £30,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
20 TLT (Bristol)
  • Routine commercial and real estate matters (contentious and non-contentious)
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £30,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
21 Addleshaw Goddard (London)
  • Housing
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
22 Brian Cave Leighton Paisner (London)
  • Housing
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
23 Browne Jacobson (Nottingham)
  • Housing
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
24 Trowers & Hamlins (London)
  • Housing
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
25 Womble Bond Dickinson (London)
  • Housing
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
26 Addleshaw Goddard (London)
  • Complex property and commercial development matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £20,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
27 Ashurst (London)
  • Complex property and commercial development matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £20,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
28 Burges Salmon (Bristol)
  • Complex property and commercial development matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £20,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
29 Eversheds Sutherland (London)
  • Complex property and commercial development matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £20,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
30 Gowling WLG (London)
  • Complex property and commercial development matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £20,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
31 Herbert Smith Freehills (London)
  • Complex property and commercial development matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £20,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
32 Trowers & Hamlins (London)
  • Complex property and commercial development matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 9
  • Value: £20,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
33 Addleshaw Goddard (London)
  • Major consents matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
34 Eversheds Sutherland (London)
  • Major consents matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
35 Gowling WLG (London)
  • Major consents matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
36 Pinsent Masons (London)
  • Major consents matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
37 Womble Bond Dickinson (London)
  • Major consents matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 5
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
38 Addleshaw Goddard (London)
  • Town and country planning and highways matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 8
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
39 Ashurst (London)
  • Town and country planning and highways matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 8
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
40 Eversheds Sutherland (London)
  • Town and country planning and highways matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 8
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
41 Gowling WLG (London)
  • Town and country planning and highways matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 8
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
42 Herbert Smith Freehills (London)
  • Town and country planning and highways matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 8
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
43 Pinsent Masons (London)
  • Town and country planning and highways matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 8
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
44 Town Legal (London)
  • Town and country planning and highways matters
  • Reference: tfl 96455
  • Num offers: 8
  • Value: £10,000,000 [share]
  • Awarded to group of suppliers.
  • Contractor is an SME.

CPV Codes

  • 79100000 - Legal services

Indicators

  • Options are available.
  • Award on basis of price.

Other Information

The Authority is not committed to the estimated spend figure for each lot. The framework agreement commencement date is 01/06/2025 for 4 years, with an option to extend up to 2 years.

Reference

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