Corporate Legal Services Framework Agreement

National Roads Authority (NRA)

The procurement of the Corporate Legal Services Framework will be by means of a single-operator framework for the following non-exhaustive list of services:
— PPP (all aspects including procurement, contracts etc.),
— Procurement (non-PPP), Competition Law, general litigation and dispute resolution,
— Employment Law, Organisational and Merger issues, and Data Protection,
— Administrative Law — Roads Acts, Railway Safety Legislation, Health and Safety,
— Legislation, Freedom of Information and general regulatory,
— Planning, Environmental, Motorway Orders, Railway Orders, Property, CPO; and,
— Any other legal advisory services, of a general nature that might not fit within the scope of the above list, as required by the Clients.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2015-01-19. The procurement was published on 2014-12-16.

Suppliers

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

• McCann Fitzgerald

Who?

• National Roads Authority (NRA)

What?

• Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security › Legal services

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2014-12-16	Contract notice
2015-11-13	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2014-12-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Legal services
Quantity or scope:

The Irish Government published a Public Sector Reform Plan on 17.11.2011. Under this plan, the Government announced its intention to merge the NRA with the RPA. Both organisations are due to merge in the near future, the Corporate Legal Services Framework will be procured through the same procurement and contractual arrangements.NRA and RPA are procuring a Framework Agreement for the provision of legal services. The users of the Framework Agreement are NRA and RPA. These bodies will be entitled (but not obliged) to draw down services from the Framework Agreement in accordance with the rules of the Framework Agreement. It is envisaged that there will be one Framework Agreement signed by the NRA, RPA and the successful tenderer.The Framework Agreement has an anticipated duration of 3 years, with an option for the Clients to extend the duration, at their discretion, for up to a further 1 year. The successful tenderer(s) in this competition will be required to enter into a Framework Agreement, a specimen of which will be provided to tenderers at the next stage of the competition. As will be set out in the specimen Framework Agreement, neither of the Clients guarantee that any work will be procured under the Framework Agreement and each reserves the right to carry out separate procurement processes for services within the scope of the Framework Agreement should they, at their discretion, consider it appropriate to do so.

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

Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted 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
Awarding authority name: National Roads Authority (NRA)
Postal address: St Martin's House, Waterloo Road
Postal code: 4
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.nra.ie 🌏
E-mail: tredmond@nra.ie 📧
Phone: +353 16463508 📞
Fax: +353 16680009 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2014-12-16 📅
Submission deadline: 2015-01-19 📅
Publication date: 2014-12-19 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2014/S 245-432297
OJ-S issue: 245
Additional information

This is an Annex II B service under EU Council Directive 2004/18/EC and is, therefore not subject to the general procedures set out in that Directive. This notice is not a mandatory notice.

Object
Scope of the procurement
Frequency of contracts to be awarded: See tender documents.
Short description:

The procurement of the Corporate Legal Services Framework will be by means of a single-operator framework for the following non-exhaustive list of services:

— PPP (all aspects including procurement, contracts etc.),

— Procurement (non-PPP), Competition Law, general litigation and dispute resolution,

— Employment Law, Organisational and Merger issues, and Data Protection,

— Administrative Law — Roads Acts, Railway Safety Legislation, Health and Safety,

— Legislation, Freedom of Information and general regulatory,

— Planning, Environmental, Motorway Orders, Railway Orders, Property, CPO; and,

— Any other legal advisory services, of a general nature that might not fit within the scope of the above list, as required by the Clients.

Quantity or scope:

NRA and RPA are procuring a Framework Agreement for the provision of legal services. The users of the Framework Agreement are NRA and RPA. These bodies will be entitled (but not obliged) to draw down services from the Framework Agreement in accordance with the rules of the Framework Agreement. It is envisaged that there will be one Framework Agreement signed by the NRA, RPA and the successful tenderer.

The Framework Agreement has an anticipated duration of 3 years, with an option for the Clients to extend the duration, at their discretion, for up to a further 1 year. The successful tenderer(s) in this competition will be required to enter into a Framework Agreement, a specimen of which will be provided to tenderers at the next stage of the competition. As will be set out in the specimen Framework Agreement, neither of the Clients guarantee that any work will be procured under the Framework Agreement and each reserves the right to carry out separate procurement processes for services within the scope of the Framework Agreement should they, at their discretion, consider it appropriate to do so.

Description of options: Contract is for 3 years with an option to extend by 12 months.
Duration: 048 months
Reference number: NRA311
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Dublin 4.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Economic and financial standing: Minimum of 10 Million EUR turnover per annum averaged over the past 3 years.
Technical and professional ability:

It is a requirement of this tender competition that a Tenderer satisfies the following minimum criteria for participation:

— A Candidate must have achieved a minimum turnover of 10 000 000 EUR in respect of the provision of legal services in each of the 3 previous audited financial years of the Candidate preceding the date of submission of this request to participate. In the case of a consortium this level of turnover must be reached by at least one member of the consortium,

— A Candidate must have acted as main legal adviser at tender submission and at preferred bidder/contract close stage to either, a contracting authority, a bidding consortium or a funder for a PPP project involving over 100 million EUR in private funding during the last three years. (A Candidate may satisfy this requirement through involvement in two separate projects during the last 3 years — one at tender submission stage and the second at preferred bidder/contract close stage — subject to each project involving over 100 million EUR in private debt funding),

— A Candidate must be able to provide legal representation to clients in Ireland and entitled to appear in such capacity before an Irish Court; and,

— A Candidate must provide confirmation that, if successful in the competition, it will procure and maintain professional indemnity insurance with a minimum level of cover of 6 500 000 EUR for each and every claim or series of claims arising out of any one event from an insurer authorised to provide that service in Ireland for the period of the contract.

Contract execution
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:

Applicants must be able to provide legal representation to clients in Ireland and be entitled to appear in such capacity before an Irish court.

Procedure
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 4
Minimum number of candidates: 3
Maximum number of candidates: 5
Objective criteria for selection: See Pre-Qualification Documents.
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Awarding authority name: Railway Procurement Agency
Postal address: Parkgate Street
Postal code: 8
Contact
Contact point: Tony Redmond
Address of the buyer profile: http://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/CompanyInformation/Index/1153 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=83412&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=83412&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Reference
Identifiers
Reference number attributed by the contracting authority: NRA311

Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Fax: +353 18886125 📠
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Same as: Review body
Source: OJS 2014/S 245-432297 (2014-12-16)

Contract award notice (2015-11-13)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2015-11-13 📅
Publication date: 2015-11-17 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2015/S 222-405194
Refers to notice: 2014/S 245-432297
OJ-S issue: 222
Additional information
This contract is a rates based contract.

Procedure
Award criteria
Criterion: 1. Price (30)
2. Quality (70)

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2015-11-09 📅
Name: McCann Fitzgerald
Postal address: Riverside One, 37-42 Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 2
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4

Contracting authority
Contact
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=83413&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Source: OJS 2015/S 222-405194 (2015-11-13)

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