Legal services

Tender description

This tender process is now complete. EirGrid has appointed a panel of legal advisors to provide legal advice to certain EirGrid Group companies (as detailed in Part 3 section 2 of the RFP) for the lots more particularly described below: 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 one or more lots annually for up to an additional 4 years. 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 one or more other law firms established in those jurisdictions. Services include, but not limited to: — advisory, — corporate/commercial, — contractual advice, — issues/disputes arising.