Official UK procurement notice
Tender for the provision of Legal Services
Authority: University of South Wales (Education)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of legal services to the University of South Wales Group, to include:
Commercial Services (including contracts, partnership, collaborations, public procurement, IP & franchise);
Dispute Resolution (including student matters);
Human Resources (including employment law, dispute resolution & tribunals, recruitment, employment procedures);
Property and Estates;
International Law (including immigration);
Governance, compliance and company law;
Grants and Funding;
Competition Law and Subsidy Control;
Loan Agreements;
Charity Law;
Data Protection Law;
Marketing, sponsorship and events management;
Consumer Law, and laws impacting students;
Corporate Law (including advice on and assistance with the structuring of commercial transactions);
Health & safety, and
UK Law – specifically changes in legislation and the resulting changes required in University legal documentation e.g. terms and conditions etc.
CPV: Legal advisory and information services · Legal advisory and representation services · Legal advisory services · Legal documentation and certification services · Legal representation services · Legal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The availability of competent legal advice forms an obvious and key requirement for…Renewal
The availability of competent legal advice forms an obvious and key requirement for universities. The very nature of higher education requires the provision of legal advice across a broad spectrum of subjects.
Although this broad spectrum can occasionally mean legal advice being sought from a law firm with specialist subject expertise (that would probably fall outside the scope of this tender), the majority of the legal advice required falls within the following core areas:
-Commercial Services (including contracts, partnership, collaborations, public procurement, IP & franchise)
-Dispute Resolution (including student matters)
-Human Resources (including employment law, dispute resolution & tribunals, recruitment, employment procedures)
-Property and Estates
-International Law (including immigration)
-Governance, compliance and company law
-Grants and Funding
-Competition Law and Subsidy Control
-Loan Agreements
-Charity Law
-Data Protection Law;
-Marketing, sponsorship and events management
-Consumer Law, and laws impacting students;
-Corporate Law (including advice on and assistance with the structuring of commercial transactions)
-Health & safety, and
-UK Law – specifically changes in legislation and the resulting changes required in University legal documentation e.g. terms and conditions etc.
In 2021 the University conducted a strategic review of external legal costs and use of the advice provided. As a result, the University appointed in-house counsel in May 2021 providing advice in some of these core areas, together with a core duty of legal oversight.
For a large higher education institution the volume, scope and complexity of legal advice requirements across these core areas as well as a range of specialists subjects, is regularly beyond the capacity and/or expertise of our in-house services team and forms the basis of this tender. For example, under the direction of the University Legal Services team, key stakeholders including estates and facilities, human resources, procurement and student casework often require external legal advice. Additional information: All Questions and Answers must be submitted via the Sell2Wales portal.
Requests to attend the Supplier Engagement meeting should be made by emailing [email protected].
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 (6)
- Service Delivery: 30%
- Relationship Management: 20%
- Management Information: 5%
- Additional Services: 5%
- Community Benefits: 5%
- price: 35%
Published award criteria (6)
- Service Delivery: 30
- Relationship Management: 20
- Management Information: 5
- Additional Services: 5
- Community Benefits: 5
- Price: 35
- Technical & professional ability
Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales to practice law in the jurisdiction of England and Wales.
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Competitive procedure with negotiation
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 11 Apr 2022, 11:36 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Apr 2022, 11:36 BST
- Authority reference
1738- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-009593- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Please see the ITT for contract related conditions.
Publisher note: NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=120299. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver Community Benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The Community Benefits included in this contract are: Please refer to the quality assessment criteria in the ITT document. (WA Ref:120299)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales ↗
- Submission deadline
- 16 May 2022, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en, cy
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
Timeline
11 Apr 2022 → 13 Jun 2022 · 3 dates- Notice published11 Apr 2022, 11:36 BST
- Submission deadline16 May 2022, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected13 Jun 2022, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Merthyr Tydfil CollegeContracting authority
- Royal Welsh College of Music and DramaContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria