CT2945 Legal Services Framework
A Contract Award Notice
by THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Framework (Services)
- Duration
- 4 year (est.)
- Value
- £26M
- Sector
- BUSINESS
- Published
- 24 Oct 2023
- Delivery
- To 03 Oct 2027 (est.)
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Edinburgh
20 buyers
- City of Edinburgh Council Edinburgh
- Stirling Council Stirling
- West Lothian Council Livingston
- East Lothian Council East Lothian
- Midlothian Council Dalkeith
- Falkirk Council Larbert
- Highland Council Inverness
- East Dunbartonshire Council Kirkintilloch
- Aberdeen City Council Aberdeen
- Aberdeenshire Council Aberdeen
- South Ayrshire Council Ayr
- Orkney Islands Council Kirkwall
- Shetland Islands Council Shetland
- Inverclyde Council Greenock
- Dumfries & Galloway Council Dumfries
- Angus Council Forfar
- North Lanarkshire Council Motherwell
- South Lanarkshire Council Hamilton
- Renfrewshire Council Paisley
8 suppliers
- Harper Macleod Glasgow
- Brodies Edinburgh
- Morton Fraser Edinburgh
- Anderson Strathern Edinburgh
- Shepherd & Wedderburn Edinburgh
- DWF Edinburgh
- Clyde & Co Scotland Glasgow
- CMS Cameron Mckenna Nabarro Olswang London
Description
The City of Edinburgh Council’s in-house legal team provides advice and support on all legal matters relating to the Council. The team instructs external firms where it has insufficient capacity or where particular specialist advice is required. The Council wishes to appoint a number of suitably qualified and experienced law firms (“Service Providers”) to a six lot Framework Agreement to carry out legal services for the City of Edinburgh Council and other named Scottish local authorities. The type and volume of advice required may fluctuate during the period of the Contract.
Lot Division
| 1 | Commercial Lot 1: Commercial The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Public law, Corporate law, Commercial contracts, Finance law and financial services law, Intellectual property, IT, Procurement, FOISA, Data protection, RIPSA and RIPA, Commercial and Pensions. Award Criteria
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| 2 | Property and Planning Lot 2: Property and Planning The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Property law, Construction law, Environmental law, Planning law, Transportation law and Litigation support for all of the above. Award Criteria
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| 3 | Litigation Lot 3: Litigation The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Childcare law, Education law, Litigation, Licensing law. Award Criteria
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| 4 | Employment Lot 4: Employment Law The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Providing legal advice in relation to local government employment law matters, Providing support in the furtherance of positive employee relations, Providing legal advice in relation to litigated employment matters, Providing front-line expert support to complex high risk HR case management, Providing advice and support on the development of employment policies and practices, Providing advice on major projects in relation to employment matters and Advocacy (including solicitor-advocacy if possible). Award Criteria
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| 5 | Major Projects and Investigations Lot 5: Major Projects and Investigations The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: The provision of strategic and multi-disciplinary advice in respect of major, high value and/or complex matters requiring expertise in excess of that which would ordinarily fall within Lots 1 to 4 of the Contract; and The provision of complex multi-disciplinary investigatory advice in respect of major, high value and/ or complex matters requiring investigatory expertise in excess of that which would ordinarily fall within Lots 1 to 4 of the Contract. Award Criteria
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| 6 | Debt Recovery Lot 6: Debt Recovery The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to the three categories of debt to be recovered: (1) council tax & non-domestic rates (NDR), (2) sundry debt, including not limited to parking penalty charges and statutory repairs debt and (3) heritage court - rent arrears. Award Criteria
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Award Detail
| 1 | Harper Macleod (Glasgow)
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| 2 | Brodies (Edinburgh)
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| 3 | Morton Fraser (Edinburgh)
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| 4 | Anderson Strathern (Edinburgh)
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| 5 | Shepherd & Wedderburn (Edinburgh)
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| 6 | Harper Macleod (Glasgow)
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| 7 | Morton Fraser (Edinburgh)
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| 8 | Anderson Strathern (Edinburgh)
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| 9 | Shepherd & Wedderburn (Edinburgh)
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| 10 | Harper Macleod (Glasgow)
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| 11 | Brodies (Edinburgh)
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| 12 | Morton Fraser (Edinburgh)
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| 13 | Anderson Strathern (Edinburgh)
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| 14 | DWF (Edinburgh)
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| 15 | Harper Macleod (Glasgow)
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| 16 | Brodies (Edinburgh)
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| 17 | Clyde & Co Scotland (Glasgow)
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| 18 | Anderson Strathern (Edinburgh)
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| 19 | Harper Macleod (Glasgow)
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| 20 | Brodies (Edinburgh)
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| 21 | Anderson Strathern (Edinburgh)
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| 22 | CMS Cameron Mckenna Nabarro Olswang (London)
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| 23 | Harper Macleod (Glasgow)
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CPV Codes
- 79100000 - Legal services
Indicators
- Award on basis of price.
Other Information
CONTRACT SPECIFIC MANDATORY CRITERIA Part IV: Selection criteria - C: Technical and Professional Ability – Prompt Payment – Question 4C.4 - It is a mandatory requirement of this Contract that a prompt payment clause is present in all Contracts used in the delivery of the requirements. This ensures payment of sub-contractors at all stages of the supply chain within 30 days and includes an obligation to provide a point of contact for sub-contractors to refer to in the case of payment difficulties. This will require active monitoring of payment performance as well as the provision of evidence and reports to the Council on request or as contractually scheduled. Bidders should confirm that this condition will be met within the response to this question. Part IV: Selection criteria - C: Technical and Professional Ability – Climate Change – Question 4C.7 - It is a mandatory requirement that Tendering Organisations will be required to provide evidence that their organisation has taken steps to build their awareness of the climate change emergency and how they will respond. Tendering organisations will be required to complete the Climate Change Plan Template, including planned projects and actions to reduce the bidder’s carbon emissions. This does not need to contain calculated carbon emissions. Part IV: Selection criteria - D: Quality Assurance Schemes & Environmental Management – Question 4D.1 - It is a mandatory requirement that Tendering Organisations with more than 5 employees have in place a Health & Safety Policy which is approved at a senior level within the Organisation and is reviewed regularly. Bidders should confirm that this condition has been met within the response to this question. Where a Bidder does not have a Health & Safety Policy and is required to do so, the Council may exclude the Bidder from the competition. (SC Ref:748282)
Reference
- FTS 031310-2023
Domains
- orkney.gov.uk
- southlanarkshire.gov.uk
- shetland.gov.uk
- aberdeencity.gov.uk
- falkirk.gov.uk
- edinburgh.gov.uk
- eastlothian.gov.uk
- midlothian.gov.uk
- eastdunbarton.gov.uk
- highland.gov.uk
- northlan.gov.uk
- find-tender.service.gov.uk
- publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk
- westlothian.gov.uk
- stirling.gov.uk
- angus.gov.uk
- south-ayrshire.gov.uk
- aberdeenshire.gov.uk
- dumgal.gov.uk
- renfrewshire.gov.uk
- northlanarkshire.gov.uk
- inverclyde.gov.uk