Published date: 13 March 2023
Last edited date: 13 March 2023
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Contract summary
Industry
Legal services - 79100000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£40,000,000
Procurement reference
tender_320146/1117368
Published date
13 March 2023
Closing date
12 April 2023
Closing time
4pm
Contract start date
30 June 2023
Contract end date
29 June 2027
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Establishment of Legal Services 2023 Framework Agreement. Requires all awarded suppliers to be able to cover all mandatory specialisms of law as outlined below to the required standard:
- Corporate
- Healthcare including Mental Health Law
- Commercial
- Employment
- Real Estate and Property Law
- Cyber, Data Protection and Information Law
- Finance
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
There are, in addition, a number of specialist areas of law which are deemed optional, please see below:
- Procurement
- Intellectual Property, IT, Telecoms, Media and eCommerce Law
- International Law
- Tax
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Investigations
- Education
- Public Sector Law
- Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) and Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
- Immigration
- Social Care
- Child law
- Charities Law
Which suppliers will be able to provide under the Framework Agreement providing they meet the minimum capability score.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS/ACTIVITY BASED INCOME (ABI) The terms and conditions of this frameworkagreement and any resulting call-off contract is appended to the ITT. These terms include provisionsrequiring the payment by the supplier of an ABI management charge in consideration of the award of thisframework agreement, The management and administration by HTE of the overall contract structure andassociated documentation,as well as the requirement to submit regular management information to HTE.SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST AND PROCUREMENT INFORMATION This exercise will beconducted on the HTE Bravo portal. Candidates wishing to be considered must register expressions ofinterest as follows: Register on the HTE portal at https://healthtrusteurope.bravosolution.co.uk. Log into theportal with username/password. Click the SQs/ITTs Open to All Suppliers link. These are the SQs/ITTs opento any registered supplier. Click on the relevant SQ/ITT to access the content. Click the Express Interestbutton at the top of the page. This will move the SQ/ITT into your My SQs/My ITTs page. You can access anyattachments by clicking Buyer Attachments in the SQ/ITT Details box. Follow the on screen instructions tocomplete the SQ/ITT. Submit your reply using the Submit Response button at the top of the page. If yourequire any further advice, contact the Bravo e-Tendering Help Desk at help@bravosolution.co.uk. Sid4GovHTE utilises the sid4gov supplier information database. Candidates should register on sid4gov athttps://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register and submit their sid4gov company profile forpublication on the database. Candidates already registered on sid4gov must ensure information is up to date.Where access to sid4gov is unavailable, please contact the sid4gov helpdesk at sid4gov@gps.gsi.gov.uk.Please note that sid4gov does not prepopulate any fields of the SQ on HTE's Bravo portal. Candidates mustcomplete the Qualification & Technical Envelopes of the SQ in Bravo in full.
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HTE is acting on behalf of MSE, a central purchasing body. Notwithstanding HTE's relationship with MSE, it is HTE who is conducting this tender exercise and MSE will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. The bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the entities in the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) listed in the downloadable spreadsheet of the following weblink are envisaged as framework agreement users: Public sector classification guide and forward work plan - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk). This list includes each organisation's successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations and associated organisations created due to any organisational changes. This framework agreement will be open to any bodies or organisations operating in the UK of a health, and/or social care nature or which have a similar procurement need, and/or any UK based central government authority listed at Annex I of Directive 2014/24/EU, in respect of any goods or services to any of the above listed organisations.
About the buyer
Contact name
Ryan Noble
Address
19 HEALTHTRUST EUROPE, GEORGE ROAD, Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 1NU
England
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