Official UK procurement notice
Online Legal Subscription (2025-2026)
Authority: Docklands Light Railway Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTfL 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 TfL online legal books
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Sept 2025, 16:17 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Oct 2025, 08:15 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-062673- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0597e8Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
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.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Sept 2025 → 7 Oct 2025 · 2 dates- Standstill ends400 days ago22 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Notice published386 days ago7 Oct 2025, 08:15 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Sept 2025- Transparency notice published10 Sept 2025, 16:17 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published11 Sept 2025, 08:41 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected25 Sept 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published7 Oct 2025, 08:15 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK LIMITED26 Sept 2025 – 26 Sept 2026 | £120,177 | 11 Sept 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Online Legal Subscription (2025-2026) · THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK LIMITED
- Signed
- 24 Sept 2025
- Value
- £120,177
- Period
- 24 Sept 2025 – 1 Sept 2026
- Status
- active
No agreed KPIs: Below the relevant threshold
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender