This includes many of your day-to-day commercial contracts, such as cleaning, catering, photocopying and transport agreements. Our education lawyers are also able to support you in preparing hire facilities agreements to ensure that third parties can use the school site to raise revenue whilst being compliant with your safeguarding obligations. We can assist with the tendering of such needs whether through frameworks or independently and also to provide assurance that public procurement legal obligations have been complied with.
We increasingly support educational institutions with collaboration agreements. This may include, for example, schools and colleges working together and/or agreements between colleges and universities which may relate to the provision of training. Whilst we would always recommend that legal support is obtained initially before entering into commercial contracts, particularly of any significant length or value, we are also able to support you if you face any challenges, for example, in relation to a breach of contract. We regularly advise on contract variations; force majeure provisions; and termination and notice clauses.