Award

Online Legal Subscription (2025-2026)

  • Transport for London

UK5: Transparency notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-055531

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0597e8 (view related notices)

Published 10 September 2025, 4:17pm



Scope

Description

TfL Legal require an intuitive, easy to use, specialist legal online subscription, that is comprehensive and provide up-to-date legal news, legal precedents and drafting assistance, know-how, transactional analysis, online publications, and market intelligence, a large database of case law, legislation, news, journals, legal commentary, current awareness alerts and EU legal materials for lawyers.

The online legal subscription service provides a service for the lawyers to ask ad hoc legal questions and receive responses from specialist lawyers.

This requirement is also for the required online legal books.

Please Note a PIN notice was published 10 January 2025: 2025/S 000-000810


Contract 1

Supplier

Contract value

  • £120,177 excluding VAT
  • £144,212.64 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Earliest date the contract will be signed

25 September 2025

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 26 September 2025 to 26 September 2026
  • 1 year, 1 day

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 79980000 - Subscription services

Contract locations

  • UK - United Kingdom

Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Direct award

Direct award justification

Single supplier - technical reasons

We consider the justification for this direct award to be compliant with the condition that 'there are no reasonable alternatives to those goods, services or works.' Nonetheless, we remain committed to undertaking further market engagement during the contract term to assess possible alternatives as well as the feasibility of conducting a competitive procurement exercise upon contract expiry.


Supplier

THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK LIMITED

  • Companies House: 01679046
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PGZB-9229-GXTT

Five Canada Square

London

E14 5AQ

United Kingdom

Region: UKI42 - Tower Hamlets

Small or medium-sized enterprise (SME): No

Voluntary, community or social enterprise (VCSE): No

Contract 1


Contracting authority

Transport for London

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PHMT-6197-NWNZ

5 Endeavour Square

London

E20 1JN

United Kingdom

Region: UKI41 - Hackney and Newham

Organisation type: Public authority - central government