2024/018 Establishment of a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law for Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland wishes to establish a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law. Enterprise Ireland makes a range of complex and high impact State Aid law decisions in order to support Irish businesses and Enterprise Ireland requires external State Aid legal advice in relation to many of these decisions. The Enterprise Ireland legal function is particularly focused on the provision of funding to Irish companies by way of grants, equity investments, convertible loan note subscriptions and repayable advances, in each case in compliance with State Aid law. In that regard, it avails of GBER and de minimis exemptions and also avails of EU state aid frameworks. This Competition offers interested service providers with specialist expertise in State Aid law the opportunity to participate in a competition for a place on a multi-party framework agreement. Enterprise Ireland requires firms with specialist expertise in the area of State Aid law with a record of: (a) advising Government Agencies in relation to interpreting the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and other European Treaties, and related European Commission and Council Regulations, Directives, Decisions and Guidelines, in each case in relation to State Aid; (b) appearing before the European Court of Justice and the General Court in State Aid cases; and (c) communicating with the European Commission on behalf of client public bodies in relation to State Aid issues; and (d) advising client public bodies in relation to notifying the European Commission in relation to State Aid. The full list of requirements is contained within the tender documents. As the subject matter of this competition is considered as a Title III service within the context of Directive 2014/24/EU, where the choice of procedure is open to the Contracting Authority, the procedure chosen on this occasion is the Accelerated Single Stage Procedure with Negotiation. Tenderers must associate themselves with the competition in order to access the tender documents, ask and receive queries and submit a tender response. All responses must be submitted in a ZIP FILE format. Please note that this competition is being re-advertised as a new competition. The old competition, with Resource ID 4248055 is cancelled.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2024-12-16. The procurement was published on 2024-11-29.

Suppliers

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

Who?

• Enterprise Ireland

What?

Where?

• Aττική › Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών
• Eastern and Midland › Dublin

Procurement history

Date	Document
2024-11-29	Contract notice
2026-04-14	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2024-11-29)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: 2024/018 Establishment of a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law for Enterprise Ireland
Short description:

Short description

Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Legal services 📦
Information about lots
Tenders may be submitted for maximum number of lots: 0
Description
Internal identifier: 0
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 500 000 EUR 💰
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ✅
Additional products/services:

Legal advisory and information services 📦

Legal advisory and representation services 📦

Legal advisory services 📦

Legal representation services 📦

Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Place of performance: Dublin 🏙️
Duration: 4 years
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Main features of the procedure:

Tenders are invited from all interested parties on basis of the minimum based specification, award criteria and pricing documents as outlined in this Invitation to Tender. Enterprise Ireland will evaluate those tenders against the award criteria and reserves the right to: (a) Move straight to a contract award decision, without negotiation (b) To apply the successive reduction rule to reduce the number of firms invited to the negotiation phase; or (c) To invite all firms to negotiation meetings.

Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2024-12-16 12:00:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=4779603
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 12 months
Information about negotiation
The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tenders without conducting negotiations ✅
Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated ✅
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators ✅
Maximum number of participants: 4
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Place: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=4779603
Electronic invoicing: Required

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
List and brief description of rules and criteria: See Tender Documents

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Enterprise Ireland
National registration number: 00000000
Postal address: The Plaza, East Point Business Park
Postal code: D3 E5R6
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: malcolm.kavanagh@enterprise-ireland.com 📧
Phone: 017272000 📞
URL: https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/ 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=4779603 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=4779603 🌏
There is a maximum number of candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure ✅
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2024/S 235-737753 (2024-11-29)

Contract award notice (2026-04-14)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 1 500 000 EUR 💰
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): 1 500 000 EUR 💰

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure ✅

Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded ✅
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001
Contract Number: 439275
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2026-03-31 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 5
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: 1 500 000 EUR 💰
Tender identifier: 000087592
Identifier of lot or group of lots: LOT-0001
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Covington and Burling LLP
National registration number: Unknown
Postal address: Manhattan, Bolwerklaan 21 Avenue du Boulevard
Postal code: 1210
Postal town: Brussels
Region: Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad 🏙️
Country: Belgium 🇧🇪
E-mail: sjones@cov.com 📧
Phone: +32 2 549 5257 📞
Size of the economic operator: Large
Tender identifier: 000087520
Name: Baker McKenzie BV
National registration number: Baker McKenzie
Postal address: Bolwerklaan 21
E-mail: bram.hoorelbeke@bakermckenzie.com 📧
Phone: +32493405226 📞
Tender identifier: 000087626
Name: ByrneWallace LLP
Postal address: 88 Harcourt St
Postal code: D02 DK18
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: btenders@byrnewallace.com 📧
Phone: +353 1 691 5000 📞
URL: www.byrnewallace.com 🌏
Tender identifier: 000086953
Name: Matheson
Postal address: 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland
Postal code: D02 R296
E-mail: proposals@matheson.com 📧
Phone: +353 1 232 2000 📞

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
E-mail: eoin.wallace@enterprise-ireland.com 📧
Phone: 01 7272000 📞

Complementary information
Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Source: OJS 2026/S 074-258668 (2026-04-14)

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