Legal services

Tender description

The Catapult undertook a tender exercise to appoint a suitably capable and experienced provider of legal services. The Catapult has appointed 1 provider to provide the ‘full service’ of legal expertise. Specialist Requirements — Full Service General Advice: The supplier will provide advice on the following from time to time: — Advertising, sponsorship and marketing; — Banking and finance; — Branding and trademarks; — Commercial agreements; — Commercial dispute resolution; — Competition compliance; — Competition, EU and regulatory; — Competition investigations; — Complaints and actions for damages; — Construction and engineering; — Consumer law; — Corporate; — Data protection; — Employment law; — Energy law and energy markets; — Health and safety; — Insurance and reinsurance; — Intellectual property; — Litigation and dispute management; — Patents; — Pensions law; — Procurement (including Public Procurement Regulations); — Project finance; — Real estate; — State aid and EU funding; — Tax; — VAT. Specialist Requirements — Commercial and Intellectual Property: Advice on these matters will be required more frequently: — Drafting and review of agreements which may include multiple stakeholders; — Advice on Intellectual Property including dissemination, exploitation, retention and sharing arrangements; — Advice on contentious commercial matters. Specialist Requirements — Public Procurement, Competition and State Aid: Advice on these matters will be required more frequently: — All aspects of the procurement life-cycle; — Procurements that are subject to OJEU and those that are not; — State Aid advice including block exemptions, de minimis and assessments; — Responding to procurement challenges. The value of the contract is estimated at between 600 000 GBP and 1 000 000 GBP.