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Historic England is to appoint a panel of four law firms to advise across a spectrum of legal work worth up to £2m.

Details: 24.May.2021

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The firms will be expected to advise on:

Planning law - with an emphasis on the law relating to the historic built environment
Property law - particularly all aspects of property management
Commercial - a wide range of contracts, licenses etc
Procurement and subsidy control
Intellectual Property -including IT, trademarks, software and data protection
Employment
Defendant Personal Injury
Commercial litigation
Contentious and non-contentious construction advice
Charity, including tax advice
Judicial Review

Historic England said: “We would hope that firms could offer advice in all or a majority of these areas. To enable us to deal satisfactorily with conflict of interest situations and to have competition between firms for appropriate large matters allowing us to offer clients a choice of lawyer we would ideally like to appoint a maximum of four firms.”

The closing date/time is 5 pm on 21 June 2021.

The contract is due to start on 1 September 2021 and run until 31 August 2024.