# 2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [The Legal Aid Agency](/buyers/the-legal-aid-agency/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Multiple Suppliers
- Award value: £180,000,000
- Tender value: £1,800,000,000
- Award date: 1 October 2025
- Published: 20 October 2026
- Contract start: 1 October 2025
- Contract end: 30 September 2034
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: b9c6e89e-5d12-4ff4-8c19-15795df8f235-918443
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-175cd64e-a512-4e44-a00e-9f9ea0109d72

## Description

The Legal Aid Agency \(LAA\) invited Applicants to submit a Tender for a 2025 Standard Crime Contract \("Crime Contract"\) to deliver publicly funded criminal legal aid services from 1 October 2025\. Applicants wishing to deliver criminal legal aid services under a Crime Contract must submit a response to the SQ for 2025 Standard Crime Contracts - Stage 3 and the 2025 Standard Crime Contract ITT - Stage 3\. This application period opened on 01May 2025\. The LAA intends that the application period will remain open until on, or around, 30 September 2034, subject to the right of early termination\. It is the Applicant's sole responsibility to ensure that it submits a Complete Tender before the Tender Deadline\. The procurement processes for the 2025 Standard Crime Contract Stages 1 and 2 have closed\. Stage 3 remains open\. This notice publishes the contracts awarded under Stage 3 from July to September 2026\. Additional information: Please find details of the contracts awarded under the 2025 Standard Crime Contract here:

## Related contract awards

- [2024 Civil Re-Opening](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ff2ff620-9180-4c08-9d96-bf26ec975da9): The Legal Aid Agency
- [2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-dc69bfce-7735-45e6-a65d-8926a7fbd091): The Legal Aid Agency
- [2024 Civil Re-Opening](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f5d7b902-87b4-4f05-84bc-2dcab9047651): The Legal Aid Agency
- [Pharmaceuticals Wholesale Services Extension](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-632f4b07-e31a-4fcc-bc7b-b3843218742f): University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- [Framework Agreement for Supply of Adult and Paediatric Nutrition Products](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d7924f40-4228-4f94-8c94-96135d1c6655): East Midlands Pharmacy Collaborative
- [2025 Standard Crime Contract Outcome](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-065f9c70-cad3-482a-bb39-a160f8f018c9): The Legal Aid Agency

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b9c6e89e-5d12-4ff4-8c19-15795df8f235-918443)