Legal services

Tender description

This notice intends to facilitate early engagement with potential providers to seek the views and opinions of organisations that may be interested in delivering legal services and relates only to a pre-procurement Market Engagement Questionnaire (MEQ). The HCPC are currently developing their service specification, contracting process and commercial model for legal services and intend to commence a procurement process to award renewed contracts to provide the service from 1 April 2021. The new service will be for a period of 4 years, with the option to extend for a further 1 year at the HCPC’s discretion. The estimated costs associated with provision of this service (based on 5 years) are GBP 6 million. HCPC intends to open up their pool of on call legal expertise by structuring their requirement into three lots: Lot 1: Corporate Advice; Lot 2: Regulatory Advice; Lot 3: FTP Case Specific Advice. More detail on the proposed service can be found in the draft service specification. The provider will ensure the provision of high quality legal advice covering the areas set out below: (i) information governance; (ii) employment law; (iii) commercial, contract and procurement advice (including OJEU procurement). The provider will ensure the provision of high quality legal advice covering the areas set out below: (i) public law, policy and procedural advice; (ii) practical interpretation of the law, suggesting practical and proportionate solutions to the requests for advice made by the HCPC; (iii) litigation. The provider will ensure the provision of high quality specific FTP case advice based on: (i) their active involvement in day to day FTP work at another regulator; (ii) up-to-date knowledge of sector developments.