Provide Legal Advice Services for Legal Aid Agency
Welfare Benefits Services in England and Wales from 1.11.2016.
United Kingdom-London: Legal services
2016/S 102-181537
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
102 Petty France
London
SW1H 9AJ
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: civiltenders@legalaid.gsi.gov.uk
NUTS code: UK
Internet address(es):Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/legal-aid-agency
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Welfare Benefits Services in England and Wales from 1.11.2016.
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), on behalf of the Lord Chancellor, is responsible for commissioning and administering legal aid services (publicly funded advice and representation) across England and Wales in accordance with the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (‘LASPO’) and associated legislation. The LAA is inviting Applicant Organisations to submit a tender to deliver publicly funded legal advice services in relation to the Welfare Benefits category of law to commence on 1.11.2016 in the following Procurement Areas on:
— the North and/or;
— The South West & Wales.
This procurement process is a single stage process. The LAA requested expressions of interest between 24 March and 14.4.2016 from organisations interested in providing Welfare Benefits Services in these Procurement Areas. Tenders will only be accepted from Applicant Organisations that submitted an expression of interest.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
England & Wales.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), on behalf of the Lord Chancellor, is responsible for commissioning and administering legal aid services (publicly funded advice and representation) across England and Wales in accordance with the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (‘LASPO’) and associated legislation. The LAA is inviting Applicant Organisations to submit a tender to deliver publicly funded legal advice services in relation to the Welfare Benefits category of law to commence on 1.11.2016 in the following Procurement Areas on:-
— the North and/or;
— The South West & Wales.
This procurement process is a single stage process. The LAA requested expressions of interest between 24 March and 14.4.2016 from organisations interested in providing Welfare Benefits Services in these Procurement Areas. Tenders will only be accepted from Applicant Organisations that submitted an expression of interest.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The contract period will be for a period of 17 months with the option to extend for up to a further 1 year.
There is no limit to the number of Contracts that can be awarded through this tender process. The procurement process is designed to evaluate an organisations suitability to enter into a contract with the LAA and all Tenders deemed suitable following this procurement process will be awarded.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.14)Additional information
The Tender requirements are pass/fail. There are no weighted criteria.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
III.2.3)Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.4.1)Review body
London
UNITED KINGDOM
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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