Legal Subscription Services

Concepts

• subscription services
• legal information
• legal subscription services
• an online legal subscription service
• legal
• subscription
• large and sophisticated databases
• the uk
• (e.g. case law
• e.g.

Location

London

Description

An online legal subscription service.

Total Quantity or Scope

An online legal subscription service, which provides large and sophisticated databases of legal information (e.g. case law) for the UK and abroad.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 79980000 - Subscription services

Indicators

Legal Justification

The Government Legal Department ("the Contracting Authority") is intending to enter into a contract with RELX (UK) Limited t/a LexisNexis ("LN") for the provision of online legal resource information services. In summary, LN provides access to an online legal database containing unique content the Contracting Authority requires. This content can only be made available from the source publisher i.e. LN. Lexis + is a proprietary service which contains unique content only published by LN. The purpose of this VEAT notice is to provide sufficient notice of the intention to award a four year contract to LN in accordance with Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) and 32(2)(b)(iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR"). Having reviewed its requirements for this contract, the Contracting Authority has concluded that an award to LN is permissible under Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) and (iii) of the PCR because (i) LN is the only supplier in the market that can provide these technical services to the required specification and (ii) has protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights. The Contracting Authority is satisfied that no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not as a result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement. The Contracting Authority shall enter into the contract with LN ten days after the date on which this VEAT notice is published.