Contract

Metrolink Trafford Park Line - Miscellaneous Legal Services Provider DLA Piper

  • Transport for Greater Manchester

UK7: Contract details notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-044433

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-056975

Published 30 July 2025, 4:15pm



Scope

Description

Legal advice to TfGM in relation to:

• concluding an outstanding grant to Electricity North-West Ltd of a lease of a Metrolink traction substation site at Pomona Strand, Trafford including dealing with all and any Land Registry enquiries and requirements and the consent of the superior landlord - Peel Land (Intermediate) Limited - and dealing with any SDLT enquiries and the preparation and submission to HMRC of relevant SDLT Returns (if any); and

• concluding a suite of outstanding third-party Agreements with landowners at Barton Dock Road known as CHEP/Maher including dealing with all and any Land Registry requirements and requisitions and dealing with any SDLT enquiries and the preparation and submission to HMRC of relevant SDLT Returns (if any);

Ad-hoc' legal advice in relation to:

• enquiries relating to SDLT paid pursuant to the Peel Short and Long Lease workstreams dealt with by DLA between 2016-2022 and including completion and submission of any outstanding or supplemental further SDLT Returns required under the SDLT legislation or by HMRC and/or (if appropriate) the re-claim of any overpaid SDLT paid in respect of any previously completed Peel Long Leases; and

• advice and assistance in relation to completed registrations of the Peel Long Leases where requisitions are raised by HM Land Registry or where TfGM have questions or requisitions themselves relating to any such completed registrations.


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Supplier

Contract value

  • £70,000 excluding VAT
  • £84,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Date signed

30 July 2025

Contract dates

  • 30 July 2025 to 31 December 2026
  • 1 year, 5 months, 2 days

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 79100000 - Legal services

Contract locations

  • UKD - North West (England)

Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - without competition


Supplier

DLA PIPER UK LLP

  • Companies House: OC307847
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PMPT-8255-CHYG

160 Aldersgate Street

London

EC1A 4HT

United Kingdom

Region: UKI31 - Camden and City of London

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

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Contracting authority

Transport for Greater Manchester

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PNJQ-2746-NWYT

2 Piccadilly Place

Manchester

M1 3BG

United Kingdom

Region: UKD33 - Manchester

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government