The provision of legal services

Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA)

This public procurement competition relates to the establishment of a panel of legal advisers to provide legal services to the Contracting Authority.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders web site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=196192.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2011-07-01. The procurement was published on 2011-05-17.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

Who?

• Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA)

What?

• Legal services › Legal advisory and information services
• Legal services › Legal advisory and representation services

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2011-05-17	Contract notice
2011-12-21	Contract award notice
2011-12-21	Contract award notice
2011-12-21	Additional information

Contract notice (2011-05-17)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: legal services
Quantity or scope:

This public procurement competition relates to the establishment of a panel of legal advisers to provide legal services to the Contracting Authority. The primary areas of law on which the Contracting Authority may require advice and/or legal representation from time to time are:— Health Act 2007, as amended including:—— Civil enforcement procedures,—— Criminal enforcement,—— Debt collection,—— Administrative law including fair procedures,—— Decision making including statutory appeals from decisions,—— Judicial review,—— Contract disputes,—— Employment law,—— Health and safety legislation,—— Public liability & indemnity,—— Property disputes,—— Regulatory disputes,—— Freedom of information,—— Data protection,—— Litigation.This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of activities.

Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Legal services 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Open procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Postal address: Unit 1301, CityGate, Mahon
Postal town: Cork
Contact
Internet address: http://www.hiqa.ie 🌏
E-mail: rosullivan@hiqa.ie 📧
Phone: +353 212409300 📞
Fax: +353 212409600 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-05-17 📅
Submission deadline: 2011-07-01 📅
Publication date: 2011-05-19 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 96-157902
OJ-S issue: 96
Additional information

Refer to RFT for specification. (ET ref: 196192).

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

This public procurement competition relates to the establishment of a panel of legal advisers to provide legal services to the Contracting Authority.

Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders web site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=196192.

Quantity or scope:

— Health Act 2007, as amended including:

—— Civil enforcement procedures,

—— Criminal enforcement,

—— Debt collection,

—— Administrative law including fair procedures,

—— Decision making including statutory appeals from decisions,

—— Judicial review,

—— Contract disputes,

—— Employment law,

—— Health and safety legislation,

—— Public liability & indemnity,

—— Property disputes,

—— Regulatory disputes,

—— Freedom of information,

—— Data protection,

—— Litigation.

This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of activities.

Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: The Authority's Offices Dublin /Cork.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:

(1) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they are not bankrupt or the subject of an administration order, are not being wound-up, have not granted a trust deed, are not the subject of a petition presented for sequestration of their estate, have not had a receiver, manager or administrator appointed and are not otherwise apparently insolvent.

(2) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that the candidate, their directors, or any other person who has powers of representation, decision or control of the candidate has not been convicted of conspiracy, corruption, bribery, or money laundering. Failure to provide such a declaration will result in the candidate being declared ineligible and they will not be selected to participate in this procurement process.

(3) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not been convicted of a criminal offence relating to the conduct of their business or profession.

(4) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have not committed an act of grave misconduct in the course of their business or profession.

(5) All candidates must comply with the requirements of the state in which they are established, regarding registration on the professional or trade register.

(6) Any candidate found to be guilty of serious misrepresentation in providing any information required, may be declared ineligible and not selected to continue with this procurement process.

(7) All candidates will have to demonstrate that they are licensed, or a member of the relevant organisation, in the state where they are established, when the law of that state prohibits the provision of the services, described in this notice, by a person who is not so licensed or who is not a member of the relevant organisation.

(8) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions under the law or of the relevant State in which the candidate is established

(9) All candidates will be required to produce a certificate or declaration demonstrating that they have fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes under the law or of the relevant state in which the economic operator is established.

Economic and financial standing:

(1) All candidates will be required to provide a reference from their bank.

(2) All candidates will be required to provide evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance.

(3) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice.

(4) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.

Technical and professional ability:

(1) Details of the educational and professional qualifications of their managerial staff; and those of the person(s) who would be responsible for providing the services or carrying out the work or works under the contract.

(2) A check may be carried out by the contracting authority or by a competent official body of the State in which the candidate is established, to verify the technical capacity of the candidate; and if relevant, on the candidates study and research facilities and quality control measures.

(3) An indication of the proportion of the contract which the services provider intends possibly to subcontract.

(4) A statement of the technicians or technical services available to the candidate to carry out the work under the contract; or be involved in the production of goods or the provision of services under the contract; particularly those responsible for quality control, whether or not they are independent of the candidate.

Procedure
Tender opening date: 2011-06-06 📅
Place of opening: Unit 1301 Citygate Mahon, Cork.
Place: Unit 1301 Citygate Mahon, Cork.
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA)
Contact
Contact point: CEO's Office
Richard O' Sullivan
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA7741 🌏
Name: Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA)
URL for further information: http://www.hiqa.ie 🌏
URL for documents: http://www.hiqa.ie 🌏
URL for participation: http://www.hiqa.ie 🌏

Reference
Additional information

Refer to RFT for specification.

(ET ref: 196192).

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Health Information and Quality Authority
Postal address: Unit 1301 Citygate, Mahon
Postal town: Cork
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: sangland@hiqa.ie 📧
Phone: +353 212409300 📞
Source: OJS 2011/S 096-157902 (2011-05-17)

Contract award notice (2011-12-21)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-12-21 📅
Publication date: 2011-12-22 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 246-399282
Refers to notice: 2011/S 96-157902
OJ-S issue: 246
Additional information
(ET Ref:358632).

Object
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: The Authority's Offices Dublin / Cork.

Procedure
Award criteria
Criterion: 1. Legislation (150)
2. Litigation (100)
3. General advises (150)
4. Proposed team and resources (100)
5. Execution methodology & quality assurance (100)
6. Fees (400)

Award of contract

1️⃣
Date of contract conclusion: 2012-01-06 📅
Name: Beachcroft Llp
Postal address: Portwall Place, Portwall Lane
Postal town: Bristol
Postal code: BS7 8LY
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
E-mail: bidteam2@beachcroft.co.uk 📧

2️⃣
Name: Landwell Solicitors
Postal address: One Spencer Dock, North Wall Quay, 1
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: michael.moore@ie.landwellglobal.com 📧
Internet address: www.landwell.ie 🌏

3️⃣
Name: Mason Hayes + Curran
Postal address: Dublin 2
E-mail: atreacy@mhc.ie 📧
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 16
Source: OJS 2011/S 246-399282 (2011-12-21)

Contract award notice (2011-12-21)
Reference
Dates
Publication date: 2011-12-23 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 247-400712
OJ-S issue: 247
Additional information
(ET Ref:358793).

Procedure
Award criteria
Criterion: 3. General advices (150)
6. Fees (100)

Award of contract
Postal address: One Spencer Dock, North Wall Quay
Postal code: 1
Name: Beauchamps Solicitors
Postal address: Riverside Two, Sir John Rogersons Quay
Postal town: Dublin 2
E-mail: m.kirby@beauchamps.ie 📧
Internet address: www.beauchamps.ie 🌏
Name: Mason Hayes+Curran
Postal address: South Bank House, Barrow Street
Postal code: 4
E-mail: cbrown@mhc.ie 📧
Internet address: www.mhc.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2011/S 247-400712 (2011-12-21)

Additional information (2011-12-21)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Additional information

Reference
Dates
Publication date: 2011-12-24 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 248-402102
Refers to notice: 2011/S 246-399282
OJ-S issue: 248
Source: OJS 2011/S 248-402102 (2011-12-21)

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