Notice Information
Notice Title
CT2945 Legal Services Framework
Notice Description
The City of Edinburgh Council's in-house legal team provides advice and support on all legal matters relating to the Council. The team instructs external firms where it has insufficient capacity or where particular specialist advice is required. The Council wishes to appoint a number of suitably qualified and experienced law firms ("Service Providers") to a six lot Framework Agreement to carry out legal services for the City of Edinburgh Council and other named Scottish local authorities. The type and volume of advice required may fluctuate during the period of the Contract.
Lot Information
Commercial
Lot 1: Commercial The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Public law, Corporate law, Commercial contracts, Finance law and financial services law, Intellectual property, IT, Procurement, FOISA, Data protection, RIPSA and RIPA, Commercial and Pensions.
Property and PlanningLot 2: Property and Planning The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Property law, Construction law, Environmental law, Planning law, Transportation law and Litigation support for all of the above.
LitigationLot 3: Litigation The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Childcare law, Education law, Litigation, Licensing law.
EmploymentLot 4: Employment Law The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: Providing legal advice in relation to local government employment law matters, Providing support in the furtherance of positive employee relations, Providing legal advice in relation to litigated employment matters, Providing front-line expert support to complex high risk HR case management, Providing advice and support on the development of employment policies and practices, Providing advice on major projects in relation to employment matters and Advocacy (including solicitor-advocacy if possible).
Major Projects and InvestigationsLot 5: Major Projects and Investigations The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to: The provision of strategic and multi-disciplinary advice in respect of major, high value and/or complex matters requiring expertise in excess of that which would ordinarily fall within Lots 1 to 4 of the Contract; and The provision of complex multi-disciplinary investigatory advice in respect of major, high value and/ or complex matters requiring investigatory expertise in excess of that which would ordinarily fall within Lots 1 to 4 of the Contract.
Debt RecoveryLot 6: Debt Recovery The Council expects the following services from Service Providers to include but is not limited to the three categories of debt to be recovered: (1) council tax & non-domestic rates (NDR), (2) sundry debt, including not limited to parking penalty charges and statutory repairs debt and (3) heritage court - rent arrears.
Residential PropertyLot 7: Residential Property
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000723621
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT491076
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large, SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
79100000 - Legal services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £22,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £26,314,000 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 24 Oct 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 26 Jun 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 17 Apr 2023Expired
- Award Date
- 11 Oct 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Within 4 years
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete, Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- THE CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Callum Ewan, Colin Black - Procurement Manager, Contracts Team, Corporate Procurement, Darren Moir, Peter Cannon
- Contact Email
- callum.ewan@edinburgh.gov.uk, contract.admin@shetland.gov.uk, contracts.team@highland.gov.uk, corporate.procurement@inverclyde.gov.uk, corporateprocurement@northlan.gov.uk, cpssprocurement@aberdeencity.gov.uk, cpu@falkirk.gov.uk, cpu@renfrewshire.gov.uk, cpu@westlothian.gov.uk, darren.moir@edinburgh.gov.uk, hayleigh.valentine@westlothian.gov.uk, peter.cannon@southlanarkshire.gov.uk, procurement.socialcare@dumgal.gov.uk, procurement.tenders@dumgal.gov.uk, procurement@angus.gov.uk, procurement@eastdunbarton.gov.uk, procurement@eastlothian.gov.uk, procurement@highland.gov.uk, procurement@midlothian.gov.uk, procurement@orkney.gov.uk, procurement@south-ayrshire.gov.uk, procurement@stirling.gov.uk, school.transport@aberdeenshire.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 01856873535, +44 1312707500, +44 1314693922, +44 1324506566, +44 1415745750, +44 1463702563, +44 146702204, +44 1467533335, +44 1467539600, +44 1475712634, +44 1506281814, +44 1595744595, +44 1620827827, +44 1786233384, +44 3001230900, +44 3003000300, +44 3033333000, +44 3452777778
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDINBURGH
- Postcode
- EH8 8BG
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM33 Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, and Renfrewshire
- Delivery Location
- TLM75 City of Edinburgh
-
- Local Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Electoral Ward
- Paisley East and Central
- Westminster Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=FEB471953
Legal Services Framework - Framework for the provision of Legal Services for the City of Edinburgh Council and other named Scottish local authorities. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAY479317
CT2945 Legal Services Framework - The City of Edinburgh Council's in-house legal team provides advice and support on all legal matters relating to the Council. The team instructs external firms where it has insufficient capacity or where particular specialist advice is required. The Council wishes to appoint a number of suitably qualified and experienced law firms ("Service Providers") to a six lot Framework Agreement to carry out legal services for the City of Edinburgh Council and other named Scottish local authorities. The type and volume of advice required may fluctuate during the period of the Contract. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT491076
CT2945 Legal Services Framework - The City of Edinburgh Council's in-house legal team provides advice and support on all legal matters relating to the Council. The team instructs external firms where it has insufficient capacity or where particular specialist advice is required. The Council wishes to appoint a number of suitably qualified and experienced law firms ("Service Providers") to a six lot Framework Agreement to carry out legal services for the City of Edinburgh Council and other named Scottish local authorities. The type and volume of advice required may fluctuate during the period of the Contract.
Notice URLs
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