Legal services

Tender description

The Scottish Borders has a population of 112 430. The Legal and Licensing Services Division is part of the Legal and Democratic Services function within the Chief Executive Department of Scottish Borders Council. The Legal and Licensing Services currently comprises four teams as follows: 1. Commercial Services — Legal; 2. Community Services — Legal; 3. Licensing Services; 4. Information Management. Currently undergoing a restructure, the team comprises, in addition to the Chief Legal Officer, 3 Managing Solicitors, 6 Solicitors, 1 Trainee Solicitor and 2 Paralegals. The Licensing Team comprises a Team Leader with 2 Licensing Officers, a Licensing Standards Officer and a Civic Government Enforcement Officer. There is, in addition, 6 FTE Support staff across the teams. All are located at Scottish Borders Council Headquarters in Newtown St Boswells and provide a range of legal services to the Council. The Council requires to appoint Edinburgh agents to represent them in actions in the Court of Session and to the Sheriff Principal. The work carried out by the incumbent service provider over the last 5 years has included: — 3 x Court of Session cases; — 1 x Appearance in front of Information Rights Tribunal. Indicative value — The spend on the Contract from July 2011 to March 2015 was 188 800 GBP. It is anticipated that the spend for this Framework Agreement will be 10 000 GBP per annum.