Opportunity brief
Closing date not statedProvision of Contact Centre Services to the Legal Aid Agency
The Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) is inviting Tenders from Lot 1 (Citizen Experience) of Outsourced Services Framework (RM6295) for contracts to deliver the LAA Contact Centre Services which comprise the Defence Solicitor Call Centre (DSCC) and the Civil Legal Advice Operator Service (CLAOS). The DSCC service manages the logging, identification and deployment of defence solicitors to provide free legal advice to clients detained in police custody in England and Wales. The CLAOS is a call centre service that assesses whether a client's legal issue is in scope of legal aid and whether they are financially eligible. If they are eligible, it refers the client to specialist advice provided through legal aid or, if not, directs clients to alternative sources of help and assistance.
- Other sectors
- Public sector
- United Kingdom

- Buyer / issuer
- Legal Aid Agency
- Sector
- Other sectors
- Country / region
- United Kingdom
- Public or private
- Public sector
- Closing date
- Not stated
- Closing date not stated
- Estimated value
- £24m
- GBP
- Submission method
- Via the buyer's portal, linked from Find a Tender
- Tender number
- LAA - DSCC/CLAOS 2027
- Status
- Active
Scope summary
The Legal Aid Agency (“LAA”) is inviting Tenders from Lot 1 (Citizen Experience) of Outsourced Services Framework (RM6295) for contracts to deliver the LAA Contact Centre Services which comprise the Defence Solicitor Call Centre (DSCC) and the Civil Legal Advice Operator Service (CLAOS). The DSCC service manages the logging, identification and deployment of defence solicitors to provide free legal advice to clients detained in police custody in England and Wales. The CLAOS is a call centre service that assesses whether a client's legal issue is in scope of legal aid and whether they are financially eligible. If they are eligible, it refers the client to specialist advice provided through legal aid or, if not, directs clients to alternative sources of help and assistance.
Category: services
Key requirements
- Procurement method: See the tender documents
- Briefing session: Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Eligibility and evaluation: set out in the tender documents. Check mandatory returnables, registrations and scoring before you commit.
Required documents
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Important dates
- Published
- 29 Sept 2026
- First seen by Atlas
- 29 Sept 2026
- Briefing session
- Not captured. Check the original notice before relying on this.
- Submission deadline
- Not stated
Commercial snapshot
- Estimated value
- £24m
- Contract type
- See the tender documents
- Category
- services
- Source
- UK Find a Tender
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