2019 Legal Services — Supply of Legal Services to the Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) Framework Agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 1: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement;
Lot 2: Corporate and Financial.
A Framework Agreement constitutes a means of establishing overall terms and conditions in accordance with which, for a specified duration, individual contracts may or not be awarded. In the context of a single-party Framework Agreement, the successful framework member does not have to compete for each new contract.
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-08-02. The procurement was published on 2019-06-28.
SuppliersThe following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
Who? What?- • Legal advisory and representation services › Legal advisory services
- • Legal advisory and representation services › Legal representation services
- • Legal services › Legal advisory and information services
- • Éire/Ireland › Ireland
Procurement history
| Date | Document |
|---|---|
| 2019-06-28 | Contract notice |
| 2020-03-13 | Contract award notice |
Contract notice (2019-06-28)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Legal services
Short description:
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Legal services 📦
Additional CPV: Legal advisory and representation services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Ireland 🏙️
Procedure
Procedure type: Competitive procedure with negotiation
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: Environmental Protection Agency
Postal address: Headquarters, PO Box 3000
Postal town: Johnstown Castle Estate
Contact
Internet address: http://www.epa.ie 🌏
E-mail: t.oreilly@epa.ie 📧
Phone: +353 539160600 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149702&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149702&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2019-06-28 📅
Submission deadline: 2019-08-02 📅
Publication date: 2019-07-03 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2019/S 126-308508
OJ-S issue: 126
Additional information
Additional information is contained in the attached documents.
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Estimated total value: 4 000 000 EUR 💰
Title of the lot: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement
Lot number: 1
Short description:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 3 300 000 EUR 💰
Duration: 48 months
Description of renewals:
Title of the lot: Corporate and Financial
Lot number: 2
Short description:
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2020-06-30 📅
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Tom O'Reilly
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/334 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149702&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
Estimated timing for further notices: 6 years.
Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Tbc
Postal town: Tbc
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Consult legal advisor
Postal town: As applicable
Source: OJS 2019/S 126-308508 (2019-06-28)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Legal services
Short description:
The EPA proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) Framework Agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 1: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement;
Lot 2: Corporate and Financial.
A Framework Agreement constitutes a means of establishing overall terms and conditions in accordance with which, for a specified duration, individual contracts may or not be awarded. In the context of a single-party Framework Agreement, the successful framework member does not have to compete for each new contract.
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Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Legal services 📦
Additional CPV: Legal advisory and representation services 📦
Place of performance
NUTS region: Ireland 🏙️
Procedure
Procedure type: Competitive procedure with negotiation
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: Environmental Protection Agency
Postal address: Headquarters, PO Box 3000
Postal town: Johnstown Castle Estate
Contact
Internet address: http://www.epa.ie 🌏
E-mail: t.oreilly@epa.ie 📧
Phone: +353 539160600 📞
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149702&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149702&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2019-06-28 📅
Submission deadline: 2019-08-02 📅
Publication date: 2019-07-03 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2019/S 126-308508
OJ-S issue: 126
Additional information
Additional information is contained in the attached documents.
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The EPA proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) Framework Agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 1: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement;
Lot 2: Corporate and Financial.
A Framework Agreement constitutes a means of establishing overall terms and conditions in accordance with which, for a specified duration, individual contracts may or not be awarded. In the context of a single-party Framework Agreement, the successful framework member does not have to compete for each new contract.
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Title of the lot: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement
Lot number: 1
Short description:
The Contracting Authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) Framework Agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 2: Corporate and Financial;
Lot 1: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement.
Advice for Director General/Directors/Board of EPA and all the EPA offices set out in Section 3.2. regarding Lot 1 services:
— environmental legislation,
— legal aspects of licensing,
— enforcement of environmental and radiological legislation,
— civil enforcement.
Duration: 48 months
Description of renewals:
The Framework Agreements will be for four (4) years, with the option to extend for a further two (2) years subject to a maximum of six (6) years, and subject to satisfactory annual review of performance.
Additional information: Additional information is contained in the attached documents.
Title of the lot: Corporate and Financial
Lot number: 2
Short description:
Lot 2: Corporate and Financial:.
Advice for Director General/Directors/Board of EPA and all the EPA offices set out in Section 3.2.
Regarding Lot 2 services:
— employment law,
— property and estates,
— company law,
— contract law,
— insolvencies, receiverships,
— procurement,
— debt collection,
— property and estates.
Financial provisions:
— financial guarantees,
— bonds,
— parental guarantees,
— legal aspects of environmental liabilities,
— insurances,
— legal aspects of environmental liabilities.
Other:
— environmental data set management,
— IP Patents,
— product liability and product safety,
— FOI/AIE.
Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity:
As detailed in the tender documentation available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie
Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender validity period: 2020-06-30 📅
Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: N/a
Contact
Contact point: Tom O'Reilly
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/334 🌏
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=149702&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Reference
Additional information
Estimated timing for further notices: 6 years.
Complementary information
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Four Courts
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000 📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Internet address: http://www.courts.ie 🌏
Body responsible for mediation procedures
Name: Tbc
Postal town: Tbc
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Consult legal advisor
Postal town: As applicable
Source: OJS 2019/S 126-308508 (2019-06-28)
Contract award notice (2020-03-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Reference number: RFT 153377
Short description:
Total value of the procurement: 4 000 000 EUR 💰
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-03-13 📅
Publication date: 2020-03-18 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 055-130778
Refers to notice: 2019/S 126-308508
OJ-S issue: 55
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Methodology for the delivery of service
Quality criterion (weighting): 20 %
Quality criterion (name): Contract management
Technical merit of human resources offered
Quality criterion (weighting): 25 %
Quality criterion (name): Reliability and continuity of supply
Quality criterion (weighting): 5 %
Cost criterion (name): Cost
Cost criterion (weighting): 30 %
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-01-30 📅
Name: Fieldfisher
National registration number: 9526914L
Postal address: Suite 401, TheCapel Building, Mary's Abbey
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18280600 📞
E-mail: orlagh.colman@fieldfisher.com 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.fieldfisher.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 3 300 000 EUR 💰
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-02-04 📅
Name: ByrneWallace
National registration number: 4610600L
Postal address: 88 Harcourt Street
Postal town: Dublin 2
Phone: +353 16915000 📞
E-mail: btenders@byrnewallace.com 📧
Internet address: http://www.byrnewallace.com 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 1 500 000 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
4
Complementary information
Review body
Postal town: Dublin 7
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Consult a legal advisor
Source: OJS 2020/S 055-130778 (2020-03-13)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Reference number: RFT 153377
Short description:
The EPA proposed to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) framework agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 1: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement,
Lot 2: Corporate and Financial.
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Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable
Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2020-03-13 📅
Publication date: 2020-03-18 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2020/S 055-130778
Refers to notice: 2019/S 126-308508
OJ-S issue: 55
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
The EPA proposed to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) framework agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 1: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement,
The contracting authority proposed to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) framework agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 1: Environmental Licensing and Enforcement
Advice for director general/directors/board of EPA and all the EPA offices set out in section 3.2. regarding lot 1 services:
Environmental legislation:
— National (including statutory instruments/regulations)
— European
— International.
Legal aspects of licensing including for example:
— application process
— oral Hearings
— licence transfer
— licence suspension
— licence revocation
— judicial review.
Enforcement of environmental and radiological legislation including:
— criminal enforcement
— advice on investigations
— law of evidence
— prosecutions
Civil enforcement, for example:
— injunctions.
The contracting authority proposes to engage in a competitive process for the establishment of two (2) framework agreements for the supply of legal services to the Environmental Protection Agency in the following lots:
Lot 2: Corporate and financial:
Advice for director general/directors/board of EPA and all the EPA offices set out in section 3.2.
Regarding lot 2 services.
Corporate:
— employment law
— property and estates
— company Law
— contract law
— insolvencies, receiverships
— procurement
— debt collection
— financial guarantees
— bonds
— parental guarantees
— legal aspects of environmental liabilities
— insurances.
— environmental data set management
— IP Patents
— product liability and product safety
Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Methodology for the delivery of service
Quality criterion (weighting): 20 %
Quality criterion (name): Contract management
Technical merit of human resources offered
Quality criterion (weighting): 25 %
Quality criterion (name): Reliability and continuity of supply
Quality criterion (weighting): 5 %
Cost criterion (name): Cost
Cost criterion (weighting): 30 %
Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-01-30 📅
Name: Fieldfisher
National registration number: 9526914L
Postal address: Suite 401, TheCapel Building, Mary's Abbey
Postal town: Dublin 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18280600 📞
E-mail: orlagh.colman@fieldfisher.com 📧
Country: Dublin 🏙️
Internet address: http://www.fieldfisher.ie 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 3 300 000 EUR 💰
Date of contract conclusion: 2020-02-04 📅
Name: ByrneWallace
National registration number: 4610600L
Postal address: 88 Harcourt Street
Postal town: Dublin 2
Phone: +353 16915000 📞
E-mail: btenders@byrnewallace.com 📧
Internet address: http://www.byrnewallace.com 🌏
Total value of the procurement: 1 500 000 EUR 💰
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
4
Complementary information
Review body
Postal town: Dublin 7
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: Consult a legal advisor
Source: OJS 2020/S 055-130778 (2020-03-13)
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