Request

1. What is your spend with external law firms (please provide for the last 4 financial years)?
2. Do you use eBilling technology to manage your law firms billing (e.g. systems such as Legal Tracker, Brightflag, Apperio, CT Tymetrix, Mitratech etc.)?
3. Who is your Head of Legal or General Counsel (please provide email address)?
4. Who is your Head of Procurement (please provide email address)?
5. 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.

Response

1) What is your spend with external law firms (please provide for the last 4 financial years)?

£2,241,395.22 including VAT for all three legal contracts (Employment, Property & Commercial Services).

2) Do you use eBilling technology to manage your law firms billing (e.g. systems such as Legal Tracker, Brightflag, Apperio, CT Tymetrix, Mitratech etc.)?

We are invoiced directly by our legal providers and not aware of any billing systems used.

3) Who is your Head of Legal or General Counsel (please provide email address)?

We do not hold a position of Head of Legal or General Counsel.

4) Who is your Head of Procurement (please provide email address)?

Sean Murphy - commercialservicesteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk

5) 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.

An options appraisal is undertaken to consider accessible frameworks and establish best value as mandated by government under spend controls. Our current contracts have been procured via the NOE CPC Legal Services NOE.0512 framework.

Publishing this response

Please note that this information will be published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-02337