Purchasing group for Catholic education bodies names eight firms to £15m panel

A purchasing body set up to promote better buying within Catholic education establishments (CEEs) in England and Wales has appointed eight law firms to a legal services framework agreement worth an estimated £15m.

Churchmarketplace divided the framework into the following lots:

1. Legal services for CEEs.
2. Legal services for dioceses

The successful firms were:

• Blake Morgan (lots 1, 2)
• Winckworth Sherwood (1, 2)
• Browne Jacobson (1)
• Eversheds Sutherland (1)
• Michelmores (1)
• VWV (2)
• Stone King (2)
• Womble Bond Dickinson (2)