Official UK procurement notice
CCP120 Provision of Solicitor Agents
Authority: Derbyshire County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 5 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDerbyshire County Council in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council, Derby City Council and Nottingham City Council (called ‘the Local Authorities’ in this Specification) are seeking to enter into a framework contact with a range of firms of solicitors (each called ‘the Agent/s’ in this Specification) to deliver legal services in respect of Children Act 1989 and other Child related proceedings. The services must be delivered in accordance with this Specification and the other documents in the tender pack, including the Agreement which the Agent will be required to sign if your firm is appointed to the framework.
The Agents must demonstrate and deliver value for money having regard to quality and price. The joint expenditure for all four authorities is in the region of £1,000,000 per annum.
The contract will run from the date of award for an initial 3-year period with options to extend for up to 2 x 1-year periods.
CPV: Legal services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 20 suppliers · 3 bids received (0.1 per place) · 3 appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality: 95%
- Supplier Information Security: 5%
Published award criteria (3)
- Quality: 95%
- Supplier Information Security: 5%
- Price: 0%
- “CCP120 Provision of Solicitor Agents” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 20 suppliers, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 3 Feb 2023, 12:02 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Oct 2023, 09:19 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 7 Mar 2023 – …
- Authority reference
DN654673- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-029910- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03a2b7Find a Tender
- Review procedure
Derbyshire County Council will operate a minimum 10 (or 15 calendar day if non-electronic or fax methods used) standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to the relevant economic operators. Debriefing by the Council shall be in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 (as amended) (the Regulations). Such information should be requested from the addressee in Section 1.1. If an appeal regarding the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved the Regulations provide for the aggrieved parties who are of the opinion that they have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the Regulations, to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought as soon as possible.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 6 Mar 2023, 16:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 7 Mar 2023, 11:00 GMT
Timeline
6 Mar 2023 → 11 Oct 2023 · 3 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown6 Mar 2023, 16:00 GMT
- Bids opened7 Mar 2023, 11:00 GMT
- Notice published11 Oct 2023, 09:19 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete11 Oct 2023, 09:19 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast3 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 3 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £5,000,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Contract 029910-2023-CCP120 Provision of Solicitor Agents-1
- Signed
- 13 Sept 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Contract 029910-2023-CCP120 Provision of Solicitor Agents-2
- Signed
- 13 Sept 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Contract 029910-2023-CCP120 Provision of Solicitor Agents-3
- Signed
- 13 Sept 2023
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3bids · 3 electronic | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
4 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Derby City CouncilContracting authority
- Nottingham City CouncilContracting authority
- Nottinghamshire County CouncilContracting authority
Framework contractors & participating bidders
3 commercial parties on the notice- Dodd's Solicitors LLPFramework contractor
- Stephenson's Solicitors LLPFramework contractor
- Straw and PearceFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.