Legal services

Tender description

The Wheatley Group intends to establish a multi-lot Framework Agreement for the provision of legal and associated services. The Framework will be divided into 6 lots covering: Lot 1: Commercial Contracts; Lot 2: Legal Governance and Legal Charities; Lot 3: Legal Employment and General Civil Litigation; Lot 4: Financing; Lot 5: Sheriff Officer Services; Lot 6: Property Searching and Reporting Services. The Framework will be for a period of 36 months with the option to extend for a further 12 months at the sole discretion of the Wheatley Group. Lot 1: Commercial contracts including as a minimum procurement, construction, construction litigation, development, real estate, intellectual property, information technology and associated legal advice. Lot 2: Legal governance and legal charities including as a minimum governance and business structures, data protection, charities advice including legal structural business and corporate matters and associated legal advice. Lot 3: Legal employment and general civil litigation including as a minimum employment law, pensions and court litigation services. Lot 4: Financing including as a minimum capital markets and bank funding in relation to new and existing funding and relating to both Scottish and English law. Sheriff Officer services which will be required in relation to this lot arise from litigation in relation to rent arrears recovery, general debt recovery for former tenant arrears, litigation to recover factoring debt, anti-social evictions and anti-social behaviour orders. The services which will be required in relation to this lot include but not limited to services relative to property transactions where Wheatley Housing Group entities are the sellers of, or granters of subordinate rights in, the land, including, but not limited to Legal Reports, Plans Reports, Companies/Mutual Societies searches, Register of Community Interests in Land searches, Property Enquiry Certificates, Coal Mining Reports, Extracts/copies of title deeds.