Tender: GMC Online Legal Research Service — UK Case Law and Consolidated Legislation Access

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The GMC is seeking a supplier for a user-friendly online legal research tool to provide 24/7 access to extensive UK case law across the three UK jurisdictions and to consolidated legislation to support its in-house legal team’s work on Fitness to Practise, Registration and Revalidation, litigation, policy development and ad-hoc advice. The service must, at minimum, cover caselaw from the House of Lords/Supreme Court and Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, Administrative Court/King’s Bench Division/High Court, the Employment Appeals Tribunal, the European Court of Justice, and Northern Ireland and Scottish caselaw. Appropriate training must be available at contract initiation and to support new users during the contract (training by video link is acceptable). Website access should be available to all solicitors and trainee solicitors employed by the GMC (the GMC currently employs 77 such staff), the service should be priced for no more than 80 users with the majority accessing via a single group login and up to 20 users requiring individual logins and personalised services. An optional journals service is sought (priced separately if it attracts additional cost) covering Judicial Review and public law, Charity Law, Regulation of Healthcare Professionals, Medical Law, and Dispute Resolution/Civil Litigation.