EirGrid has a requirement for a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 Section 2) for the lots more particularly described below. Candidates are invited to submit a qualification application for inclusion on the tender list for 1 or more or all of the applicable Lots in accordance with this PQQ. Lot 1 โ ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice Lot 2 โ ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law) Lot 3 โ NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice Lot 4 โ NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law) Lot 5 โ ROINI commercial, energy and regulation (both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law). The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend 1 or more Lots annually for up to an additional 4 years. EirGrid envisages qualifying up to 5 Candidates per Lot from this pre-qualification process, subject to the quality of responses received.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-01-18.
The procurement was published on 2018-12-05.
Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Contract notice (2018-12-05) Object Scope of the procurement
Title: Legal services
Reference number: ENQEIR632
Short description:
EirGrid has a requirement for a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 Section 2) for the lots more particularly described below. Candidates are invited to submit a qualification application for inclusion on the tender list for 1 or more or all of the applicable Lots in accordance with this PQQ.
Lot 1 โ ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice
Lot 2 โ ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law)
Lot 3 โ NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice
Lot 4 โ NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law)
Lot 5 โ ROINI commercial, energy and regulation (both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law).
The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend 1 or more Lots annually for up to an additional 4 years. EirGrid envisages qualifying up to 5 Candidates per Lot from this pre-qualification process, subject to the quality of responses received.
EirGrid has a requirement for a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 Section 2) for the lots more particularly described below. Candidates are invited to submit a qualification application for inclusion on the tender list for 1 or more or all of the applicable Lots in accordance with this PQQ.
Lot 1 โ ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice
Lot 2 โ ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law)
Lot 3 โ NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice
Lot 4 โ NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law)
Lot 5 โ ROINI commercial, energy and regulation (both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law).
The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend 1 or more Lots annually for up to an additional 4 years. EirGrid envisages qualifying up to 5 Candidates per Lot from this pre-qualification process, subject to the quality of responses received.
Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Legal services๐ฆ
Additional CPV: Legal advisory and representation services๐ฆ Place of performance
NUTS region: รire/Ireland
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Northern Ireland
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Procedure
Procedure type: Competitive procedure with negotiation
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The Contracting Authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.
2) This is the sole call for competition for this service.
3) The Contracting Authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.
4) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the Revenue Commissioners when requested.
6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate.
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded.
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words โor equivalentโ will always be appended.
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the Contracting Authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The Contracting Authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.
2) This is the sole call for competition for this service.
3) The Contracting Authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.
4) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the Revenue Commissioners when requested.
6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate.
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded.
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words โor equivalentโ will always be appended.
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the Contracting Authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.
Object Scope of the procurement
Short description:
EirGrid has a requirement for a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 Section 2) for the lots more particularly described below. Candidates are invited to submit a qualification application for inclusion on the tender list for 1 or more or all of the applicable Lots in accordance with this PQQ.
EirGrid has a requirement for a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 Section 2) for the lots more particularly described below. Candidates are invited to submit a qualification application for inclusion on the tender list for 1 or more or all of the applicable Lots in accordance with this PQQ.
Lot 1 โ ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice
Lot 2 โ ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law)
Lot 3 โ NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice
Lot 4 โ NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law)
Lot 5 โ ROINI commercial, energy and regulation (both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law).
The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend 1 or more Lots annually for up to an additional 4 years. EirGrid envisages qualifying up to 5 Candidates per Lot from this pre-qualification process, subject to the quality of responses received.
The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend 1 or more Lots annually for up to an additional 4 years. EirGrid envisages qualifying up to 5 Candidates per Lot from this pre-qualification process, subject to the quality of responses received.
Estimated total value: 20 000 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Title of the lot: ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice
Lot number: 1
Short description:
General legal advisory services including, but not limited to, the following areas of Irish law:
โ environmental and planning, construction and health and safety,
โ corporate governance, general corporate and company secretary,
โ pensions,
โ employment,
โ data protection, privacy and Freedom of Information (FOI), and
โ property.
This excludes Lot 2 and Lot 5.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 800 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Duration: 48 months
Description of options:
The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend 1 or more lots annually for up to an additional 4 years, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the members.
Title of the lot: ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish Law)
Lot number: 2
Short description:
Includes services for labour intensive legal tasks including, but not limited to:
โ large scale contract and document reviews,
โ due diligence,
โ discovery,
โ legal research,
โ data protection,
โ FOI requests.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 400 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Title of the lot: NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice
Lot number: 3
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 000 000 GBP ๐ฐ
Title of the lot: NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law)
Lot number: 4
Estimated value excluding VAT: 400 000 GBP ๐ฐ
Title of the lot: ROINI Commercial, Energy and Regulation
Lot number: 5
Short description:
It is anticipated that the successful Tenderer for Lot 5 will be a law firm:
(i) established in Ireland and in Northern Ireland/the UK; or
(ii) if the law firm concerned does not have a direct presence in any of those jurisdictions, by a law firm having an association with 1 or more other law firms established in those jurisdictions.
Services include, but not limited to:
โ advisory,
โ corporate/commercial,
โ contractual advice,
โ issues/disputes arising.
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 000 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance:
Ireland
Ireland.
Northern Ireland.
Northen Ireland.
Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
Please see Information Memorandum and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire attached to this notice.
Please see Information Memorandum and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire attached to this notice.
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Please see Information Memorandum and Pre-Qualification Questionnaire attached to thisโฆ
โฆ notice.
โฆ notice
Number of participants to be contemplated: 11
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2019-03-06 ๐
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐ฃ๏ธ
Tender validity period: 2020-04-11 ๐
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The Contracting Authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.
1) Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders website (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for clarifications. All information relating to attachments, including clarifications and changes, will be published on the Irish Government Procurement Opportunities Portal (www.etenders.gov.ie) only. Registration is free of charge. The Contracting Authority will not accept responsibility for information relayed (or not relayed) via third parties.
2) This is the sole call for competition for this service.
3) The Contracting Authority will not be responsible for any costs, charges or expenses incurred by candidates or tenderers.
4) Contract award will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities.
5) It will be a condition of award that candidates are tax compliant and are in a position to produce a valid tax clearance certificate or eTax Clearance from the Revenue Commissioners when requested.
6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate.
6) If for any reason it is not possible to award the contract one or more of the tenderers invited following the conclusion of this competitive process, the contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract to the next ranked tenderer as appropriate.
7) At its absolute discretion, the contracting authority may elect to terminate this procurement process or any contract awarded.
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words โor equivalentโ will always be appended.
8) Please note in relation to all documents, that where reference is made to a particular standard, make, source, process, trademark, type or patent, that this is not to be regarded as a de facto requirement. In all such cases it should be understood that such indications are to be treated strictly and solely for reference purposes only, to which the words โor equivalentโ will always be appended.
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the Contracting Authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.
9) Without prejudice to the principle of equal treatment, the Contracting Authority is not obliged to engage in a clarification process in respect of questionnaires with missing or incomplete information. Therefore, candidates are advised to ensure that they return fully completed questionnaires in order to avoid the risk of elimination from the competition.
Complementary information Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช
Phone: +353 18886000๐
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie๐
Information about review deadlines:
The Contracting Authority will not conclude this contract to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Council Directive 2014/25/EU, until after the expiry of the standstill period which commences on the day following the date of notification on concerned candidates and tenderers. The duration of the standstill period will be 14 calendar days where notifications are sent electronically or by fax and 16 calendar days where these are sent by any other means. The Statutory Instrument mentioned above provides that review procedures are available in the High Court to a person who has or has had an interest in obtaining the reviewable public contract and alleges that he or she has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by an infringement of the law in relation in this contract.
The Contracting Authority will not conclude this contract to which a standstill period applies in accordance with Council Directive 2014/25/EU, until after the expiry of the standstill period which commences on the day following the date of notification on concerned candidates and tenderers. The duration of the standstill period will be 14 calendar days where notifications are sent electronically or by fax and 16 calendar days where these are sent by any other means. The Statutory Instrument mentioned above provides that review procedures are available in the High Court to a person who has or has had an interest in obtaining the reviewable public contract and alleges that he or she has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by an infringement of the law in relation in this contract.
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Central office of the High Courts (Appeal Section)
Postal address: Ground Floor, East Wing, Inns Quay
Source: OJS 2018/S 237-541424 (2018-12-05)
Contract award notice (2020-04-16) Object Scope of the procurement
Short description:
This tender process is now complete. EirGrid has appointed a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 section 2 of the RFP) for the lots more particularly described below:
Lot 1: ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice,
Lot 2: ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law),
Lot 3: NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice,
Lot 4: NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law),
Lot 5: ROINI Commercial, Energy and Regulation (Both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law).
The framework agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend one or more lots annually for up to an additional 4 years.
This tender process is now complete. EirGrid has appointed a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 section 2 of the RFP) for the lots more particularly described below:
Lot 1: ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice,
Lot 2: ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law),
Lot 3: NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice,
Lot 4: NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law),
Lot 5: ROINI Commercial, Energy and Regulation (Both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law).
The framework agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend one or more lots annually for up to an additional 4 years.
Total value of the procurement: 14 040 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Contracting authority Identity
Postal address: Block 2 โ The Oval, 160 Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4
Reference Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-04-16 ๐
Publication date: 2020-04-17 ๐
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 076-180474
Refers to notice: 2018/S 237-541424
OJ-S issue: 76
Additional information
The estimated contract value of EUR 14 040 000 covers all lots taking into account the contracts being extended for the additional 4 years.
Object Scope of the procurement
Short description:
This tender process is now complete. EirGrid has appointed a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 section 2 of the RFP) for the lots more particularly described below:
Lot 1: ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice,
Lot 2: ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law),
Lot 3: NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice,
Lot 4: NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law),
Lot 5: ROINI Commercial, Energy and Regulation (Both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law).
The framework agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend one or more lots annually for up to an additional 4 years.
โ data protection, privacy and freedom of information (FOI), and
This excludes lot 2 and lot 5.
Description of options:
The framework agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend one or more lots annually for up to an additional 4 years, subject always to the satisfactory performance of the members.
Additional information:
The estimated contract value of EUR 14 040 000 covers all lots taking into account the contracts being extended for the additional 4 years.
Title of the lot: ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law)
Short description:
It is anticipated that the successful tenderer for lot 5 will be a law firm:
(ii) if the law firm concerned does not have a direct presence in any of those jurisdictions, by a law firm having an association with one or more other law firms established in those jurisdictions.
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance:
IRELAND.
NORTHERN IRELAND.
IRELAND and NORTHERN IRELAND.
Procedure Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Quality, quantity and balance of human resources โ core services team
Quality criterion (weighting): 40 %
Quality criterion (name): Quality, quantity and balance of human resources โ additional services team
Quality criterion (weighting): 10 %
Quality criterion (name): Approach and methodology
Quality criterion (weighting): 5 %
Quality criterion (name): Service levels
Cost criterion (name): Total hourly rates schedule
Cost criterion (weighting): 30 %
Cost criterion (name): Volume discounts
Cost criterion (weighting): 5 %
Cost criterion (name): Secondee rates
Quality criterion (name): Servlce levels
Quality criterion (weighting): 15 %
Cost criterion (name): Total weekly rate schedule
Total monthly rate schedule
Cost criterion (weighting): 40 %
Quality criterion (name): Quality, quantity and balance of human resources
Quality criterion (weighting): 50 %
Cost criterion (weighting): 35 %
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-03-26 ๐
Name: Arthur Cox
National registration number: IE0659305A
Postal address: Earlsfort Centre, Earlsfort Terrace
Postal town: Co.Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช
Phone: +353 16180850๐
E-mail: rachel.hussey@arthurcox.com๐ง
Internet address: http://www.arthurcox.com๐
Total value of the procurement: 4 800 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-03-27 ๐
Name: Mason Hayes and Curran
National registration number: IE0040531I
Postal address: South Bank House, Barrow Street
Postal town: Dublin
Phone: +353 16142459๐
E-mail: hdempsey@mhc.ie๐ง
Internet address: http://www.mhc.ie๐
Name: Philip Lee
National registration number: 9522629P
Postal address: 7, 8 Wilton Terrace
Postal town: Dublin 2
Phone: +353 12373700๐
E-mail: mbaker@philiplee.ie๐ง
Internet address: http://www.philiplee.ie๐
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-03-30 ๐
Name: McCann FitzGerald
National registration number: IE 0056560F
Postal address: Riverside One, Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Phone: +353 16071779๐
E-mail: busdev@mccannfitzgerald.com๐ง
Internet address: http://https://www.mccannfitzgerald.com/ ๐
Total value of the procurement: 400 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Name: A&L Goodbody
Postal address: 42-44 Fountain Street
Postal town: Belfast
Postal code: BT1 5EF
Country: United Kingdom ๐ฌ๐ง
Phone: +44 2890727499๐
E-mail: mldonnelly@algoodbody.com๐ง
Country: Northern Ireland
๐๏ธ
Internet address: http://www.algoodbody.com/๐
Total value of the procurement: 4 000 000 GBP ๐ฐ
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-03-31 ๐
Postal address: Victoria House, Gloucester Street
Postal code: BT1 4LS
Phone: +44 2890894531๐
E-mail: paul.mcbride@arthurcox.com๐ง
Total value of the procurement: 400 000 GBP ๐ฐ
Name: Tughans
National registration number: 252025109
Postal address: Marlborough House, 30 Victoria Street, Antrim
Phone: +44 2890553300๐
E-mail: christine.adams@tughans.com๐ง
Internet address: http://www.tughans.com๐
National registration number: IE0040207W
Total value of the procurement: 4 000 000 EUR ๐ฐ
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-04-01 ๐
Name: Bird and Bird LLP
National registration number: GB 927 5739 83
Postal address: 12 New Fetter Lane
Postal town: London
Postal code: EC4A 1JP
Phone: +44 2079826548๐
E-mail: intpitchteam@twobirds.com๐ง
Internet address: http://www.twobirds.com๐
Postal address: Marlborough House, 30 Victoria Street
Postal code: BT1 3GG
Name: William Fry
National registration number: 4611749E
Postal address: 2 Grand Canal Square
Phone: +353 16395000๐
E-mail: caitriona.mcgonagle@williamfry.com๐ง
Internet address: http://www.williamfry.com๐
Name: Cleaver Fulton Rankin
National registration number: NI031078
Postal address: 50 Bedford Street
Postal code: BTZ 7FW
Name: Matheson
Postal address: 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 7
4
5
Complementary information Review body
Postal town: Dublin 7
Source: OJS 2020/S 076-180474 (2020-04-16)