After one of the most competitive and sought after public sector tenders in recent years, Bevan Brittan LLP has been reappointed to the Government’s Catalist Panel, the panel of approved legal providers administered by The Office of Government Commerce (OGC).

The firm is one of 18 other legal firms nationwide to be appointed to the full commercial sub-panel, out of 31 firms who had been shortlisted to tender for inclusion.

Firms appointed to the full commercial panel are automatically included on all seven of the individual commercial legal panels which also include IT and telecoms, property and estates, construction, employment and pensions, corporate and finance and IP.

The Catalist panel, formerly known as L-Cat, was established as part of OGC’s drive to improve procurement efficiency in public sector bodies. All firms appointed to the panel have been appointed after a full, competitive and legally compliant tendering process. This enables public sector bodies to appoint approved legal firms without the need to duplicate lengthy and high cost procurement processes. Although originally targeted at Central Government bodies, the panel is now being extended throughout the public sector including Local Authority, health and educational organisations.

Bethan Evans, Government Division Head and Partner at Bevan Brittan said: “We are delighted to have been re-appointed to Catalist and increasing the scope of our appointment to the Full Commercial panel. We see this as confirmation of our strength throughout the public sector and an opportunity to further develop partnerships with a range of organisations in these areas.”