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One of the country’s largest housing associations, Orbit Group, has appointed ten law firms to a legal services framework agreement estimated to be worth more than £500,000.

Details: 11.Feb.2019

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In all 16 tenders were received and the successful firms were:

Devonshires
Capsticks Solicitors
Bevan Brittan
Clarke Willmott
Anthony Collins Solicitors
Shakespeare Martineau
Wright Hassall
Penningtons Manches
Birketts
Trowers and Hamlins

The contract was awarded on the basis of quality (weighting: 60) and price (weighting: 40).

Orbit Group aims to deliver 20,000 new homes over the next ten years. It currently manages a portfolio of 42,000 homes across the Midlands, the East and South East.