Legal services

Tender description

CCS is to set up a Panel of ‘full service’ providers of legal services to central Government and associated bodies in England, Wales, Scotland and N.I. to cover specialist legal advice and project support to cover the following Mandatory Services characterised by their impact on national financial stability, issues of national importance, or which involve the management of major risks to exchequer/taxpayer interests and the need for extreme urgency/confidentiality. — Highly complex/innovative projects; — Corporate Finance; — Rescue, restructuring of strategically important entities; — Financial Services, market and competition regulation; — Investment and commercial banking; — Insurance / re-insurance; — Investment / Asset management; — Equity and Debt capital markets; — Asset finance; — Highly complex transactions in regulated markets / environments; — High value, complex mergers / acquisitions. This PIN replaces the previous PIN with call for competition, (2016/S 044-072059) published on 3.3.2016. 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 will be conducted in accordance with regulations 74 to 76 of PCR 2015. Any references to fully regulated processes or procedures 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 31.8.2017. The anticipated number of providers to be appointed to the Panel is Nine (9).