Legal services

Tender description

CCS wishes to establish a Panel of law firms to provide specialist legal services to ‘Permitted Users’ (as defined in section VI.3 below) in connection with complex finance matters, capital markets, regulation, highly complex transactions, innovative and/or strategically important transformational change, including major or complex projects, and mergers and acquisitions. Bidders must be able to demonstrate in depth expertise and capacity to deliver comprehensive specialist legal services to Permitted Users on a range of projects typically characterised by exceptional innovation and/or complexity, potential impact on national financial stability, issues of national importance, involve the management of major risks to exchequer/taxpayer interests, and/or the need for extreme urgency or confidentiality. This procurement relates to legal services within the meaning of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015). Given that this procurement process relates to ‘social and other specific services’ only, it is subject to limited regulation and accordingly will be conducted in accordance with regulations 74 to 76 of the PCR 2015. Any references to fully regulated processes or requirements are for ease of reference only and should not be taken as recognition nor acceptance that the same apply in this instance. The anticipated start date of the Panel is 28.11.2016. The anticipated maximum number of providers to be appointed to the Panel is TEN (10).