Provision of Support and Maintenance of Legal Aid Board Case Management System

Tender description

The Legal Aid Board was established under the Civil Legal Aid Act, 1995. The Act makes provision for the granting by the State of legal aid and advice to persons of insufficient means in civil cases. The Family Mediation Service (FMS) is a state run service to help couples who have decided to separate or divorce, or who have already separated, to negotiate their own terms of agreement. It has been in operation since 1986 and has been part of the Legal Aid Board since 2011. Following a market exercise in 2010, the Board developed a SharePoint based Legal Case Management system (EOS) which is used to track and support the full life cycle of the Board’s legal cases from the application stage through service delivery to case closure and archival functions. The Legal Aid Board invites tenders for a fixed price contract for the support and maintenance of the Board’s Case Management Systems which includes: • MS SharePoint • MS SQL (Standard, Enterprise and Sqlexpress, all versions from 2008 onwards) • Microsoft Visual Studio, • MS Infopath, • Microsoft .Net (C# & ASP.Net) in a Hyper-V environment,