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<p /> <p>Crown Commercial Service (CCS) on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions
act as the Department’s managing agent on the tendering process for the Document Management
and Associated Services (document storage).</p><p>Where there is a retender of a single
supplier contract under which the incumbent supplier is employing staff to provide
services, whether under the contract which is being replaced or when exiting the future
contract which is currently being procured, it is part of CCS’s standard approach
to seek legal advice from Government Legal Department to consider the terms of the
contracts underlying the transfer.</p><p>We will not publish the legal advice received
as part of this procurement. Any advice that CCS receives from Government Legal Department
is subject to legal privilege and is not disclosable, even in a court of law.</p>
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