ID 4789374 DoF - DSO Legal Services Framework

Concepts

• legal services
• belfast
• legal advice and representation
• legal advisory
• legal representation
• legal advisory and information
• administrative services
• specified legal services
• legal services framework
• dso

Location

BELFAST

Description

Departmental Solicitors Office (DSO) intends to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of specified legal services within Northern Ireland, on behalf their clients, the NICS Department and Agencies. The list of participating bodies can be found within Annex A of the Framework Agreement Specification. DSO are the in-house legal provision for the NICS Departments and Agencies. This framework will act as an overflow to the services provided by DSO. DSO and the Client is not obliged to procure services exclusively from this Framework Agreement and are free to either use their own in-house service provision, or to procure services outside this Framework Agreement. The Framework will be used on occasions where DSO is unable to provide the client Departments and Agencies with the legal support required within the client Departments’ required timescales or, for specific project work that DSO cannot facilitate within its existing resource. On such occasions this Legal Services Framework will supplement the legal services supplied by DSO. The Framework Agreement will contain five (5) Lots for the provision of legal services as described in the Framework Agreement Specification. The three highest ranked tenderers for each of the 5 Lots will be awarded a place on the Framework Agreement (in the event there is an insufficient number of tenderers which satisfy the qualification criteria and pass the Assessment Criteria for each Lot, a Lot may be established with this lower number of tenderers). Tenderers can tender for one, multiple, or all Lots. There is no restriction on the number of lots a tenderer may be appointed to; however a tenderer must have the capability and capacity to deliver all lots tendered for.

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 79100000 - Legal services
• 79110000 - Legal advisory and representation services
• 79111000 - Legal advisory services
• 79112000 - Legal representation services
• 79112100 - Stakeholders representation services
• 79140000 - Legal advisory and information services
• 75231100 - Law-courts-related administrative services

Indicators

• Bids should cover a maximum number of lots.
• Bids may cover one or more lots.

Other Information

The overall estimated value of the framework agreement over 4 years is anticipated to be £1,333,333. To ensure the framework is future proofed a higher estimate is included to ensure cover. . Also this is a demand driven requirement and therefore it would be difficult to provide a breakdown per lot. .. . Suppliers not delivering. on contract requirements is. a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a Supplier fails to reach. satisfactory levels of contract. performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach. satisfactory levels of contract. performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs. and their performance still. does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave. professional misconduct. and they may be issued with a notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated.. The issue of a notice of. Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the Supplier being excluded from all procurement competitions. being undertaken by Centres. of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the. date of issue of the notice. . The Framework Agreement is being let by Departmental Solicitor's Office on behalf of Government Departments and Agencies. The list of Government Departments and Agencies are included within the tender document - Annex A of the Specification.