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Legal representation for the insurance team

Descriptions

Norfolk County Council requires legal services for the in-house insurance team to predominately help support the delivery of the claims service, and is re-tendering its expiring framework agreement for these services.

 

The insurance team is a team of 12 staff led by the Head of Insurance and comprises a mixture of claims handler investigators and insurance officers with administrative support provided by the Business Support Team.

 

Legal representation is required by the insurance team to predominately help support the delivery of the claims service.

 

Legal representatives will need to provide a high standard of professional service advice and guidance on all matters relating to insurance claims handled by the team. Typical duties will include but not be limited to:

• Provision of general legal advice

• Representing the authority in litigation

• Maintaining a knowledge of issues facing the authority and being prepared to offer legal opinions

• Supporting the development and knowledge of the insurance team.

 

The insurance team provide support to the Norse Group and as such require coverage across the country.

Full details of the requirement can be found in the Service Specification, which forms a Schedule to the Terms and Conditions.

Please note that Norfolk County Council has joined the government's Devolution Priority Programme.

 

This process has the potential to lead to the establishment of a county combined authority for Norfolk and Suffolk, with strategic powers, headed by an elected mayor.

 

Government has also invited participation by Norfolk in Local Government Review. This process has the potential to lead to unitary local government in Norfolk. One of these changes could happen without the other. The contract may be assigned or novated to any successor authority(ies) to Norfolk County Council or to any joint body incorporating or formed by any such successor. The County Council or a successor authority or joint body may order services on behalf of other local authorities serving any area within Norfolk's current geographical boundaries.

 

Market engagement has not been undertaken. The Risk and Insurance Team are reprocuring an existing framework agreement and are not changing the substance of the service, and therefore there was little value in holding market engagement when a planned procurement notice and pipeline notice have already been published to give the market forewarning of the upcoming procurement.

Timeline

Published Date :

1st Oct 2025 5 days ago

Deadline :

12th Nov 2025 in a 1 month

Contract Start :

30th Apr 2026

Contract End :

30th Apr 2030

Keywords

legal advisory services

legal representation

counsel services

court advocacy

solicitor services

legal guidance

defense representation

public law advisory

judicial representation

Tender Lot Details

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Workflows

Status :

Open

Procedure :

N/A

Suitable for SME :

N/A

Nationwide :

No

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Tender Progress :

0%

Details

Notice Type :

Framework

Tender Identifier :

IT-378-246-T: 2024 - 001

Tenderbase ID :

310724019

Low Value :

£100K

High Value :

£1000K

Buyer Information

Address :

Liverpool Merseyside , Merseyside , L13 0BQ

Website :

N/A

Procurement contact

Name :

Tina Smith

Phone :

0151 252 3243

Email :

tina.smith@shared-ed.ac.uk

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