Official UK procurement notice
UKEF General Aerospace Legal Panel (GALP)
Authority: Department for International Trade (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDepartment for International Trade (DIT), on behalf of UK Export Finance (UKEF) as Contracting Authority, intends to put in place a panel for the provision of services of external legal counsel to advise in relation to the financial support that UKEF provides to the aerospace and defence sector.
In general terms, advice will relate to transactions for the financing of:
- Airbus aircraft where legal counsel is not otherwise procured from a separate panel established jointly by UKEF and the French and German Export Credit Agencies;
- aircraft produced by other manufacturers (e.g., Boeing); and
- aircraft engines and other aerospace assets and services.
This includes restructuring and post-issue work relating to such transactions.
DIT and UKEF intend to hold joint market engagement in February 2021 with suppliers who express an interest in potentially bidding for a place of the panel.
CPV: Legal advisory and representation services · Legal documentation and certification services · Legal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Key specialisms are likely to include the following:Planned
Key specialisms are likely to include the following:
- Aviation Finance (including the financing of Airbus and Boeing commercial jets, Roll-Royce (and other) aircraft engines and other aerospace assets and exports);
- Export Credit Agency (ECA) financing;
- Capital markets, derivative and hedging;
- Sanctions and financial regulation;
- Islamic finance;
- International law and UKEF's statutory framework as they relate aircraft financing;
- Advice on all stages of export finance transactions;
- Remedial/financial distress events;
- Dispute resolution;
- Advice on the domestic law of different jurisdictions in the context of UKEF support for the aerospace and defence sector and/or actual or potential disputes. Additional information: Please express your interest in participating in market engagement by emailing [email protected] by 4th February 2021. Please include 'GALP - Market Engagement EOI' as your email subject heading. Further details can be provided to you. Your email must clearly state:
- the name of your organisation;
- contact details;
- base location (city) for the individual(s) who will be participating.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 4 Jan 2021, 23:08 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Jan 2021, 23:08 GMT
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-000063- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-028785Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Jan 2021 → 15 May 2021 · 2 dates- Notice published4 Jan 2021, 23:08 GMT
- Tender notice expected15 May 2021, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.