The Catapult is undertaking a tender exercise to appoint a suitably capable and experienced provider of legal services.
United Kingdom-Birmingham: Legal services
2016/S 054-090654
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Energy Systems Catapult
6220 Bishops Court, Birmingham Business Park
Contact point(s): procurement@es.catapult.org.uk
B37 7YB Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: procurement@es.catapult.org.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://es.catapult.org.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 21: Legal services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Birmingham.
NUTS code UKG31
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Relevant Expertise
Previous experience with both publicly funded and private companies is essential.
Previous experience with clients in the energy sector is essential.
Previous experience with organisations with a multiple funding sources is desirable.
Previous experience with organisations in the energy sector is desirable.
Specialist Requirements — Full Service General Advice.
Bidders must be able to provide advice on the following, and it is anticipated that advice on these matters will be required from time to time:
— Advertising, sponsorship and marketing;
— Banking and finance;
— Branding and trademarks;
— Commercial agreements;
— Commercial dispute resolution;
— Competition compliance;
— Competition, EU and regulatory;
— Competition investigations;
— Complaints and actions for damages;
— Construction and engineering;
— Consumer law;
— Corporate;
— Data protection;
— Employment law;
— Energy Law and Energy Markets;
— Health and safety;
— Insurance and reinsurance;
— Intellectual property;
— Litigation and dispute management;
— Patents;
— Pensions law;
— Procurement (including Public Procurement Regulations);
— Project finance;
— Real estate;
— State Aid and EU funding;
— Tax;
— VAT.
Specialist Requirements — Commercial and Intellectual Property
In particular, the Catapult is looking for Bidders with the following specific expertise as it is anticipated that advice on these matters will be required more frequently:
— Drafting and review of agreements which may include multiple stakeholders;
— Advice on Intellectual Property including dissemination, exploitation, retention and sharing arrangements;
— Advice on contentious commercial matters.
Specialist Requirements — Public Procurement, Competition and State Aid
In particular, the Catapult is looking for Bidders with the following specific expertise as it is anticipated that advice on these matters will be required more frequently:
— All aspects of the procurement life-cycle;
— Procurements that are subject to OJEU and those that are not;
— State Aid advice including block exemptions, de minimis and assessments;
— Responding to procurement challenges.
Ability to attend meetings on site at the Catapult’s offices in central Birmingham within 30 minutes’ notice, should the need arise, is a mandatory requirement.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
79100000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Range: between 600 000 and 1 000 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
Description of these options: The contract will be for a period of 2 years with 2 options to extend, each for 1 year.
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
Description of particular conditions: As detailed in the ITT.
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
III.2.3)Technical capacity
As detailed in the ITT.
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision: Legal Services.
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
To express interest and request a copy of the ITT, please email procurement@es.catapult.org.uk
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
Energy Systems Catapult
E-mail: procurement@es.catapult.org.uk
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: