Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: The Legal Aid Agency - 2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome (GBP 180,000,000)

UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search Authoritative source Published 20th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Contracts Finder by The Legal Aid Agency. Procurement: 2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome. Description: The Legal Aid Agency (LAA) invited Applicants to submit a Tender for a 2025 Standard Crime Contract ("Crime Contract") to deliver publicly funded criminal legal aid services from 1 October 2025. Applicants wishing to deliver criminal legal aid services under a Crime Contract must submit a response to the SQ for 2025 Standard Crime Contracts - Stage 3 and the 2025 Standard Crime Contract ITT - Stag Category: services. Value: GBP 180,000,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Multiple Suppliers.

Publication: UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search · Government/Regulator
Published: 20th October 2026
Original report: contractsfinder.service.gov.uk

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ProcIntel-derived

Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 20th October 2026 · 13:52

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

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Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 3 · Moderate

Initial Significance Low (18.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (51.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: Pension Protection Fund - Legal Panel 2026 (GBP 8,000,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

What the source reported

What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.