Housing association to appoint preferred supplier for £300k legal services

A housing association with nearly 5,000 homes under management is to select a preferred supplier of legal services worth an estimated £300,000 over four years.

Gloucester City Homes said it had a range of existing contracts in place to provide legal services and the purpose of the tender process was to select a single firm to become the preferred supplier for each identified area of legal services.

The high-level areas which legal services will be grouped into are two separate Lots:

1. Governance, Corporate, Human Resources & Regulation, Finance & Securitisation, Development and Home Ownership.
2. Housing Management, Property Management and Asset Management.

The contract is expected to start on 11 December 2017 and run until 10 December 2020.