Published date: 10 December 2019

Last edited date: 9 January 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 16 January 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Legal services - 79100000

Location of contract

RG6 6UR

Value of contract

£500,000 to £1,000,000

Procurement reference

UOR-PRO-20-012 Lot 2

Published date

10 December 2019

Closing date

16 January 2020

Contract start date

1 April 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure (above threshold)

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University of Reading is seeking to appoint law firms to establish a framework across four lots to provide external legal expertise to complement its in-house department. This will include flexible resource that may be utilised to address gaps in expertise, lack of capacity, short terms demand peaks and projects and periods of absence. The University's Legal Services Department supports the University and its subsidiaries with a large and diverse range of projects, collaborations an contractual activity in the UK and beyond.
The framework will be divided into the following Lots.
Lot 1- Commercial, Corporate and Employment Legal Services
Lot 1 also contains an optional Sub-Lot (1A) for Intellectual Property, Searching, Registration and Portfolio Management Services. The University is seeking to appoint one firm to Sub-Lot 1A from the panel members appointed to Lot 1, who can provide all of the services listed in the Specification.
Lot 2 - Student and Higher Education Legal Services
Lot 3 - Governance, Trust, Public and Charity Legal Services
Lot 4 - Property and Estate Legal Services

This procurement relates to Legal Services which are listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as a specific service, known as the Light Touch Regime. It will be conducted in accordance with regulations 74 to 76 PCR 2015.

Please refer to the full specification as detailed in the Invitation to tender (Schedule 2).
Please note that Bidders will not be appointed to more than 3 Lots.

All procurement documents are available from www.in-tendhost.co.uk/theuniversityofreading. After registering access will be given to view the full documents.

More information

Links

Additional text

Please go to www.in-tendhost.co.uk/theuniversityofreading and click on tenders and then express an interest. You will need to be logged in and then go to "My Tenders" to view the documents.

The anticipated value for the Legal Services framework (Lots 1-4) is in the range of £2.5m to £4m. This is cumulative across all Lots. This is a guide only and should not be interpreted as an undertaking to purchase any services to a particular value.

Delivery Notes

To be submitted through intend www.in-tendhost.co.uk/theuniversityofreading

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Joanne Jennings

Address

Whiteknights Campus
Reading
Berkshire
RG6 6UR
United Kingdom

Telephone

0118 378 7574

Email

j.e.jennings@reading.ac.uk