Legal services

Tender description

EirGrid has a requirement for a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 Section 2) for the lots more particularly described below. Candidates are invited to submit a qualification application for inclusion on the tender list for 1 or more or all of the applicable Lots in accordance with this PQQ. Lot 1 – ROI Full Service Irish Legal Advice Lot 2 – ROI Legal Process Outsourcing (Irish law) Lot 3 – NI Full Service Northern Irish Legal Advice Lot 4 – NI Legal Process Outsourcing (Northern Irish law) Lot 5 – ROINI commercial, energy and regulation (both Irish and Northern Irish/UK law). The Framework Agreement period will be for an initial duration of 4 years with the option to extend 1 or more Lots annually for up to an additional 4 years. EirGrid envisages qualifying up to 5 Candidates per Lot from this pre-qualification process, subject to the quality of responses received. General legal advisory services including, but not limited to, the following areas of Irish law: — environmental and planning, construction and health and safety, — corporate governance, general corporate and company secretary, — pensions, — employment, — data protection, privacy and Freedom of Information (FOI), and — property. This excludes Lot 2 and Lot 5. Includes services for labour intensive legal tasks including, but not limited to: — large scale contract and document reviews, — due diligence, — discovery, — legal research, — data protection, — FOI requests. General legal advisory services including, but not limited to, the following areas of Irish law: — environmental and planning, construction and health and safety, — corporate governance, general corporate and company secretary, — pensions, — employment, — data protection, privacy and Freedom of Information (FOI), and — property. Includes services for labour intensive legal tasks including, but not limited to: — large scale contract and document reviews, — due diligence, — discovery, — legal research, — data protection, — FOI requests. It is anticipated that the successful Tenderer for Lot 5 will be a law firm: (i) established in Ireland and in Northern Ireland/the UK; or (ii) if the law firm concerned does not have a direct presence in any of those jurisdictions, by a law firm having an association with 1 or more other law firms established in those jurisdictions. Services include, but not limited to: — advisory, — corporate/commercial, — contractual advice, — issues/disputes arising.