Contract administration services

Tender description

The contracting authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The contracting authority wishes to maintain an element of management and administration to these legal services and therefore intends to appoint a single tenderer to provide legal services management and administration services. The tenderer appointed will be responsible for the following: • monitoring and reporting on cost and activity from firms appointed to provide legal services, • collating, consolidating management information from those firms, • providing Tusla with required management information including but not limited to resource inputs by professional grade, • preparing all invoices including disbursements from each of the firms for discharge of payment, to all participating firms, by Tusla, • (payments to Guardian ad Litem and Counsel are not in scope). The contracting authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The contracting authority wishes to maintain an element of management and administration to these legal services and therefore intends to appoint a single tenderer to provide legal services management and administration services. The tenderer appointed will be responsible for the following: • monitoring and reporting on cost and activity from firms appointed to provide legal services, • collating, consolidating management information from those firms, • providing Tusla with required management information including but not limited to resource inputs by professional grade, • preparing all invoices including disbursements from each of the firms for discharge of payment, to all participating firms, by Tusla, • (payments to Guardian ad Litem and Counsel are not in scope). Tenderers must be in a position to provide management information that gives Tusla full and early visibility of all service-related issues arising including court activity, spend issues, activity issues, etc.