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
• potential optional services
• legal services framework

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

Award Detail

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

Other Information

The figure indicated in Section II 1.7 represents an estimated contract value. This value reflects the. potential scale of the contract and takes into account potential optional extension periods and the uptake of potential optional services. as detailed in the tender documents. This figure does not however take into account the application of indexation. Neither CPD nor. the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. The Contracting Authority does notbind itself to. accept the lowest or any tender. Economic Operators remain responsible for all costs and expenses incurred by them or by any third. party acting under instructions from the Economic Operator in connection with taking part in this procurement process regardless. of whether such costs arise as a consequence, directly or indirectly of any amendments made to the procurement documents by the. Contracting Authority at any time. No legally binding contract shall arise and an Economic Operator shall. have no legitimate expectation. that a contract will be entered into until such time as entry into the Contract has been confirmed by the. Contracting Authority. Economic. Operators should note that all dates, time periods and figures in relation to values and volumes specified. in this notice and the. procurement documents are approximate only and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change any or all of them The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with the tender documentation. Contractors... not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor... 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 can result in the Contractor 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 three years from the date of issue.. . The Authority expressly reserves the rights:. . (I). not to award any contract as a result of.. the. procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;. (II). to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and.. structure. of the tendering Competition;. (III). to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and... (IV). to. award contract(s) in stages.. . and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates