Houses of Parliament (Image: Shutterstock)UK Government Unveils Multimillion-Pound Legal Panel For Post-Brexit Trade
The new panel will advise the government on international trade negotiations, disputes and compliance matters.
October 23, 2019 at 04:50 AM
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The U.K. Cabinet Office has unveiled a new legal panel to assist the government with international trade negotiations, disputes and compliance.
The panel, which is worth up to £70 million, is being run by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) on behalf of the Cabinet Office and will be used across multiple government departments.
Bidding will open in April next year after the U.K.'s projected withdrawal from the EU at the end of October, or in the event of a delay, January.
According to a tender notice published Oct. 22, the government is looking for firms to advise on three key areas: the negotiation and implementation of new trade agreements; the management of trade disputes; and compliance with the law of the WTO and other trade agreements.
The panel will run for three years with an option to extend it for a further year.
The CCS currently manages two major legal panels: the Finance & Complex Legal Services (FCLS) panel and the General Legal Advice Services (GLAS) panel, as well as a specialist legal panel for rail.
Last month, the CCS announced plans to merge the existing FCLS and GLAS panels into one single framework, worth an expected £400 million.
The new panel follows a spate of contract awards issued for Brexit legal advice. Last month, Legal Week revealed that legal spending by the Department for Exiting the EU had risen by more than two thirds in two years, to hit £6.7 million.
The Foreign Office has also paid Magic Circle firm Linklaters £1.5 million so far this year to provide training to civil servants on post-Brexit trade negotiation.
Additionally, Womble Bond Dickinson and Hogan Lovells have also won mandates to provide Brexit-related legal advice to the Department for Transport and the Treasury, respectively.
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