Health procurement body names ten firms to £40m 2023 legal services framework

Procurement organisation HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) has appointed ten law firms to a legal services framework worth an estimated £40m over four years.

The successful firms were:

• Bevan Brittan
• Browne Jacobson
• Capsticks
• Clyde & Co
• DAC Beachcroft
• Hempsons
• Hill Dickinson
• Kennedys Law
• Ward Hadaway
• Weightmans

These are the same ten firms HealthTrust Europe appointed to its 2019 framework.

Awarded suppliers are required to be able to advise on:

• Corporate
• Healthcare including Mental Health Law
• Commercial
• Employment
• Real Estate and Property Law
• Cyber, Data Protection and Information Law
• Finance
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

There are, in addition, a number of specialist areas of law which are deemed optional.

The contract was awarded on the basis of price (weighting: 30), cost/quality (weighting: 60) and cost/social value (weighting: 10).

The framework has been awarded for a period of three years, with the option to extend for one period of 12 months at HTE's discretion.