Legal Services Panel for University of Lincoln
The University is seeking to establish a multi-supplier panel of five suppliers to offer legal advice.
United Kingdom-Lincoln: Legal services
2020/S 230-568504
Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Brayford Pool
Town: Lincoln
NUTS code: UKF3 Lincolnshire
Postal code: LN6 7TS
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Laura Simms
E-mail: lsimms@lincoln.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 1522886762
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Legal Services Panel
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
The University is seeking to establish a multi-supplier panel of five suppliers to offer legal advice, support and guidance to each of the three colleges within the University and professional service departments. Legal services are required to cover the below four core deliverable areas:
— general and commercial;
— property;
— employment and people;
— student focus.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
Lincolnshire.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The University seeks to establish a multi-supplier panel of five suppliers to provide legal advice, support and guidance to each of the colleges within the University and professional service departments. Legal services are required to cover the below four core deliverable areas.
— general and commercial;
— property;
— employment and people;
— student focus.
The procurement process is a two stage process comprising of:
Stage 1: shortlisting questionnaire (SLQ);
Stage 2: tender and award.
Stage 1 will be used to shortlist the number of suppliers invited to submit a tender response at stage 2 to eight.
The panel is for the sole use of the University of Lincoln and will run for a an initial period of 3 years. There will be an option for the University to extend the contract by a period of 2 years in yearly increments.
The estimated total value range of the panel is between GBP 1 300 000 to GBP 2 000 000 over the maximum 5-year period.
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract or the framework agreement
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.4)Objective rules and criteria for participation
As detailed within the tender documentation.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Form of procedure
IV.1.11)Main features of the award procedure:
The tender process is a two stage process:
Stage 1: selection questionnaire;
Stage 2: tender and award.
All details are provided within the tender documentation.
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate / Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3)Additional information:
The contracting authority will incorporate a voluntary standstill period when the contract award decision is communicated to tenderers.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Lincoln:-Legal-services./WU6Z6RQ9FF
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/WU6Z6RQ9FF
Go reference: GO-20201120-PRO-17399014
VI.4.1)Review body
Postal address: Brayford Pool
Town: Lincoln
Postal code: LN6 7TS
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: Lsimms@lincoln.ac.uk
VI.4.3)Review procedure
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar days voluntary standstill period following electronic notification (minimum of 15 calendar days for any other means of communication) to applicants of the award decisions.
This notification will provide the information that tenderers are legally entitled to regarding the award decision. The standstill period provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: