Tender: Consultancy for Commercialisation and Market Development of the Legal Document Toolkit – The National Archives

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The National Archives is seeking a consultancy partner to work alongside its in-house teams to develop, test and commercialise opportunities from its Legal Document Toolkit, a suite of tools used to receive, represent, store, transform, query, analyse, enrich, revise and publish legal documents and which includes the browser-based Lawmaker, an older Word-based drafting template, data transformation and enrichment tools and analysis tools used with legislation.gov.uk and Find Case Law. An initial assessment identified ten potential exploitation opportunities, the top-ranked ideas have been further developed, and the appointed consultant will further develop propositions, conduct detailed market analysis and trials, identify delivery partners and advise on appropriate business models and investment options to move opportunities towards market readiness. The contract is for an initial period of three years with two extension options of up to 12 months each and the anticipated maximum expenditure over the contract period including any extensions is £2m including VAT (an average maximum of £400,000 per year).