Legal Services Contract Management and Administration Services

Tusla Child and Family Agency

The contracting authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The contracting authority wishes to maintain an element of management and administration to these legal services and therefore intends to appoint a single tenderer to provide legal services management and administration services. The tenderer appointed will be responsible for the following:
โ€ข monitoring and reporting on cost and activity from firms appointed to provide legal services,
โ€ข collating, consolidating management information from those firms,
โ€ข providing Tusla with required management information including but not limited to resource inputs by professional grade,
โ€ข preparing all invoices including disbursements from each of the firms for discharge of payment, to all participating firms, by Tusla,
โ€ข (payments to Guardian ad Litem and Counsel are not in scope).

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-03-05. The procurement was published on 2021-02-01.

Suppliers

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

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2021-02-01 Contract notice
2022-01-10 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2021-02-01)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Contract administration services
Reference number: Tusla 01022021
Short description:
โ€œThe contracting authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The...โ€    Show more
Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Contract administration services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Legal services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

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

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Tusla Child and Family Agency
Postal address: The Brunel Building, Heuston South Quarter
Postal town: Dublin 8
Contact
Internet address: http://www.tusla.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: leo@iprocure.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=182160&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=182160&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2021-02-01 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2021-03-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2021-02-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2021/S 025-060479
OJ-S issue: 25

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
โ€œThe contracting authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The...โ€    Show more

โ€œโ€ข monitoring and reporting on cost and activity from firms appointed to provide legal services,โ€
Show more (4)
โ€œโ€ข collating, consolidating management information from those firms,โ€

โ€œโ€ข providing Tusla with required management information including but not limited to resource inputs by professional grade,โ€

โ€œโ€ข preparing all invoices including disbursements from each of the firms for discharge of payment, to all participating firms, by Tusla,โ€

โ€œโ€ข (payments to Guardian ad Litem and Counsel are not in scope).โ€
Estimated total value: 1 700 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Short description:
โ€œTenderers must be in a position to provide management information that gives Tusla full and early visibility of all service-related issues arising including...โ€    Show more
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 700 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Duration: 48 months
Description of renewals:
โ€œThe contract will be for an initial period of 36 months with an option to extend for a further 12 months.โ€

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 12:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender validity period: 3 months
Tender opening date: 2021-03-05 ๐Ÿ“…
Tender opening time: 12:00

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: 3218849KH
Contact
Contact point: Leo Stronge
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/105768 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=182160&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Additional information
Estimated timing for further notices:
โ€œ36 to 48 months.โ€

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Source: OJS 2021/S 025-060479 (2021-02-01)
Contract award notice (2022-01-10)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
โ€œThe Contracting Authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The...โ€    Show more
Total value of the procurement: 1 700 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Additional CPV: Contract administration services ๐Ÿ“ฆ

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Contracting authority
Identity
Postal code: Dublin

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-01-10 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2022-01-14 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 010-020356
Refers to notice: 2021/S 025-060479
OJ-S issue: 10

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
โ€œThe Contracting Authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The...โ€    Show more

โ€œโ€ข Monitoring and reporting on cost and activity from firms appointed to provide legal servicesโ€
Show more (5)
โ€œโ€ข Collating, consolidating management information from those firmsโ€

โ€œโ€ข Providing Tusla with required management information including but not limited to resource inputs by professional grade.โ€

โ€œโ€ข Preparing all invoices including disbursements from each of the firms for discharge of payment, to all participating firms, by Tuslaโ€

โ€œโ€ข (payments to Guardian ad Litem and Counsel are not in scope)โ€

โ€œTenderers must be in a position to provide management information that gives Tusla full and early visibility of all service-related issues arising including...โ€    Show more

Procedure
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Qualitative Criteria
Quality criterion (weighting): 700
Cost criterion (name): Cost Criterion
Cost criterion (weighting): 300

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2021-09-01 ๐Ÿ“…
Name: Arthur Cox Consultancy Services
Postal address: Ten Earlsfort Terrace
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: D02 T380
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Total value of the procurement: 1 700 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Source: OJS 2022/S 010-020356 (2022-01-10)