Historic England to procure £2m legal services panel of four firms

The firms will be expected to advise on:

• Planning law - with an emphasis on the law relating to the historic built environment
• Property law - particularly all aspects of property management
• Commercial - a wide range of contracts, licenses etc
• Procurement and subsidy control
• Intellectual Property -including IT, trademarks, software and data protection
• Employment
• Defendant Personal Injury
• Commercial litigation
• Contentious and non-contentious construction advice
• Charity, including tax advice
• Judicial Review

Historic England said: “We would hope that firms could offer advice in all or a majority of these areas. To enable us to deal satisfactorily with conflict of interest situations and to have competition between firms for appropriate large matters allowing us to offer clients a choice of lawyer we would ideally like to appoint a maximum of four firms.”

The closing date/time is 5 pm on 21 June 2021.

The contract is due to start on 1 September 2021 and run until 31 August 2024.