Official UK procurement notice
ID 4789374 DoF - DSO Legal Services Framework
Authority: Departmental Solicitor's Office
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionDepartmental 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.
CPV: Law-courts-related administrative services · Legal advisory and information services · Legal advisory and representation services · Legal advisory services · Legal representation services · Legal services · Stakeholders representation services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 7 bids on the busiest of 5 lots · 5 suppliers appointed
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · no lot values published · a supplier may bid for at most 5 of themLot #1Inquiries Law
Lot #2Corporate and Commercial Law
Lot #3Law relating to Property matters
Lot #4Law relating to DAERA matters
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).
- “ID 4789374 DoF - DSO Legal Services Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Mar 2024, 15:58 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2024, 16:22 BST
- Authority reference
4789374- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-030665- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044aefFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Review procedure
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of Framework Agreement is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the framework Agreement is entered into.
Publisher note: 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
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 1 May 2024, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
1 May 2024 → 25 Sept 2024 · 2 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown1 May 2024, 15:00 BST
- Notice published25 Sept 2024, 16:22 BST
Notice history
2 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Apr 2024- Deadline moved to 1 May 2024, 15:00 BST18 Apr 2024, 17:19 BST+7 days · was 24 Apr 2024, 15:00 BST
- Status changed to complete25 Sept 2024, 16:22 BST
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineIV.2.2) | 24 Apr 2024 | 1 May 2024 | +7 d |
The tender closing date is extended from 24 April 2024 to 01 May 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast5 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 5 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £1, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Inquiries Law
- Signed
- 10 Sept 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Corporate and Commercial Law
- Signed
- 10 Sept 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Law relating to Property matters
- Signed
- 10 Sept 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Law relating to DAERA matters
- Signed
- 10 Sept 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Law relating to DfC matters
- Signed
- 10 Sept 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Inquiries Law | 7bids · 7 electronic · 3 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
| 2 · Corporate and Commercial Law | 7bids · 7 electronic · 3 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
| 3 · Law relating to Property matters | 7bids · 7 electronic · 3 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
| 4 · Law relating to DAERA matters | 7bids · 7 electronic · 3 from abroad | 3 | — | — |
| 5 · Law relating to DfC matters | 7bids · 7 electronic · 2 from abroad | 2 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015 (as amended).Review body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
5 commercial parties on the notice- ARTHUR COXFramework contractor
- CLEAVER FULTON RANKIN LTDFramework contractor
- Carson McDowell LLPFramework contractor
- TLT N.I. LLPFramework contractor
- TughansFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.