2024018

Request regarding provisions for external law firms

Published: 25 October 2024

Information requested

  • What is your spend with external law firms (please provide for the last 4 financial years)?
  • Do you use eBilling technology to manage your law firms billing (e.g. systems such as Legal Tracker, Brightflag, Apperio, CT Tymetrix, Mitratech etc.)?
  • Who is your Head of Legal or General Counsel (please provide email address)?
  • Who is your Head of Procurement (please provide email address)?
  • Do you have a law firm panel / preferred supplier list / use a framework to buy your external law firm services? Please provide details where possible.

NHSCFA response

  1. Spend:
    • 2024/25 – nil (year to date)
    • 2023/24 - £29k
    • 2022/23 - £17k
    • 2021/22 - £7k
  2. No, all payments are made via approved invoices through our financial system.
  3. NHS Counter Fraud Authority does not have an internal legal team.
    We outsource our procurement function so don’t have an internal Head of Procurement. This service provision is managed internally
  4. Frameworks are used to source this service – previous procurement was through Crown Commercial Service - Legal Services Panel Framework (RM6179).

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