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Find Case Law Public Beta Development

The National Archives

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: The National Archives

Buyer Address: Kew, Richmond, UKI75, TW9 4DU, United Kingdom

Contact Email: procurement@nationalarchives.gov.uk

Status
active
Procedure
open
Value
2875000.0 GBP
Gross: 3450000 GBP
Published
17 Sep 2025, 10:44
Deadline
29 Sep 2025, 16:00
Contract Start
n/a
Contract End
n/a
Category
services
CPV
72222300 - Information technology services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
n/a
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

The objective of this procurement process is to source a delivery partner who will work with us in developing further the public beta of the Find Case Law service. The aim of the Find Case Law service (FCL) Is to permanently archive, publish and enable the re-use of court and tribunal judgments as data for everyone.   FCL is an information service. FCL follows an iterative Agile development approach. All service enhancements are planned and implemented in response to evidenced user need. Over the course of the proposed contract period, we anticipate making improvements to all aspects of the service including: our Homepage and support pages including our licence application journey, our search, browse and notifications functionality and our API and data re-use offer. We also need to improve our editorial interface and our underlying data model and infrastructure to allow us to widen the scope of what we publish without effecting our existing users and service offer. We expect that additional, yet to be determined, improvements will also be needed and which will emerge from user research and stakeholder engagement.  We intend to award a contract for an initial period of 2 years, with one extension option of up to 12 months. We anticipate that the maximum expenditure over the duration of the contract period (including any extension options) will be £3.45m including VAT (i.e. an average maximum expenditure of £1.15m per year).

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Opportunity Context

More Information Links

External Link: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057260-2025

Link Description: Tender notice on Find a Tender

Lots

Lot 1 Status: active

Lot 1 Value: GBP 2,875,000

Lot 1 Value (Gross): GBP 3,450,000

Lot 1 Contract Start: 2025-12-01T00:00:00Z

Lot 1 Contract End: 2027-11-30T23:59:59Z

Lot 1 SME Suitable: Yes

Lot 1 Award Criterion (quality): Quality (60%)

Lot 1 Award Criterion (price): Price (30%)

Lot 1 Award Criterion (quality): Social Value (10%)

Documents

Document Description: Not published

Document Description: ITT Document

Document Description: Clarification questions received, and our responses to them.

Document Description: Tender notice on Find a Tender

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