Legal services

Tender description

Currently King’s College London ("King’s) spends in excess of 1.7 million GBP per year on external legal services, across over 20+ firms. King’s wishes to establish a multi-provider Framework Agreement for the provision of legal services. King’s objective is to ensure that it receives quality legal services from law firms who can consistently provide pragmatic, creative and expert advice. The Framework Agreement will run initially for 2 years, with an option to extend for 2 further years (subject to satisfactory performance). King’s will actively manage the Framework Agreement, including coordinating contract review meetings, performance management and analysis of management information provided. This Procurement is being done under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and is in line with the requirements of the Light Touch Regime for Health, Social, Education and certain other Service Contracts. Currently King’s College London ("King’s) spends in excess of 1.7 million GBP per year on external legal services, across over 20+ firms. King’s wishes to establish a multi-provider Framework Agreement for the provision of legal services. King’s objective is to ensure that it receives quality legal services from law firms who can consistently provide pragmatic, creative and expert advice. The Framework Agreement will run initially for 2 years, with an option to extend for 2 further years (subject to satisfactory performance). King’s will actively manage the Framework Agreement, including coordinating contract review meetings, performance management and analysis of management information provided. King’s will work closely with the chosen Providers throughout the term of the Framework Agreement to create productive working relationships and achieve greater value for money. The Framework Agreement will allow the chosen Providers to supply King’s with the services identified in the technical specification, on the agreed terms of and for the duration of the Framework Agreement period.