Legal Services Panel

General legal advice and services for central government, including finance and complex legal services. Provides for a wide range of commonly needed areas of law, including contracts, dispute resolution and litigation, real estate and corporate finance.

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There are 17 suppliers on this agreement

Lot 1: General Legal Advice Services

Expires: 30/11/2025

12 suppliers

Lot 2: Financial and Complex Legal Services

Expires: 30/11/2025

7 suppliers

Before using this agreement you will need to read our customer guide. This document will help you to select the right award procedure for your needs.

You can buy services under this agreement in two ways:

further competition
direct award

Before taking part in either a further competition or direct award, you will need to complete framework schedule 6 (order form template and call-off schedules)This file will download.

Apart from framework schedule 6, there are no templates that you need to complete as part of your call-off procedure. You may use your own internal tender documents as part of your bid pack.

You can use our eSourcing tool to run your further competition or direct award. If this is your first time using the eSourcing suite, you will need to register an account. If you have already registered, you can log into your eSourcing account.

You should check your own internal policies and processes to make sure they follow your standard operating procedures.

Further competition

To award a call-off contract through further competition you should:

develop a clear specification of your needs
use the available tools to shortlist the number of suppliers you invite to bid (where suitable)
use framework schedule 6 (order form template and call-off schedules) as the basis of your call-off contract
1. amend or refine your contract deliverables, including liability caps
develop your further competition award criteria, including your intended pricing mechanism
1. 1. this will form the basis of your decision to award your call-off contract
invite all identified suppliers to submit a tender in writing by publishing your tender documents in line with the Public Contract Regulations
1. 1. this can be by email or through your preferred e-Sourcing tool
  2. find contact details for each supplier representative in the RM6179 supplier contacts document
set a time limit for the submission of tenders, (take into account the time needed to create and submit tenders and the complexity of your needs)
keep each tender confidential until the time limit set out for the return of tenders has expired
apply your published award criteria to each submitted tender
award your call-off contract by sending a completed and signed framework schedule 6 to the successful supplier
1. suppliers should promptly sign and return this document (this can be done electronically)
provide unsuccessful suppliers with written feedback on why their tenders were unsuccessful
publish your contract on Contracts Finder for transparency purposes

Direct award works

To direct award under this agreement you should:

develop a clear specification of your needs
determine which suppliers are capable of meeting your needs by reviewing the capability matrix
apply the direct award criteria to the prospectuses for each capable supplier to establish which supplier provides the most economically advantageous solution
contact the supplier that you have selected and provide them with your specification so that they can complete their conflict of interest checks and confirm that they have the relevant capability and capacity
if you wish for the work to be undertaken under an alternative fee arrangement, ask for a fee quote
award the call-off contract with the supplier by sending a completed and signed framework schedule 6 (order form template and call-off schedules)
1. suppliers should promptly sign and return (this can be done electronically)

Key facts

Agreement ID: RM6179
Start date: 01/12/2021
End date: 30/11/2025
Lots: 2
Suppliers: 17
Regulation: PCR2015
Agreement type: PCR15 Framework

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