# External Legal Services \(Solicitors - England & Wales\)

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

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [General Medical Council \(GMC\)](/buyers/general-medical-council-gmc/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Mills & Reeve LLP](/contract-winners/mills-reeve/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £500,000
- Tender value: £500,000
- Award date: 5 May 2023
- Published: 9 August 2023
- Contract start: 20 May 2023
- Contract end: 19 May 2027
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: a2f35337-8d0e-4295-b98b-751e6b0ccd80-670657
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-e87f254c-f104-409e-a2ca-47d96a9c90e8

## Description

The GMC has a substantial and well established in-house legal team\. The in-house legal team carries out the majority of the legal work for the GMC in relation to the exercise of its core statutory functions\. It is now the sole provider of legal services in respect of the investigation of cases in relation to individual medical practitioners, as well as the conduct on behalf of the GMC of resultant cases before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service \(MPTS\) and litigation before the courts of England and Wales\.As a consequence the GMC does not anticipate that it will require much \(if any\) assistance from its external legal services supplier in relation to the day to day delivery of its core statutory functions\. It is anticipated that the vast majority of instructions will relate to legal issues associated with any large commercial organisation and / or public sector body as reflected in the statement of requirement\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a2f35337-8d0e-4295-b98b-751e6b0ccd80-670657)