Supply of Legal Services - Public Inquiries
Buyers
Value
£1
Suppliers
Classifications
- Legal advisory and representation services
Tags
- award
Submission Deadline
2 years ago
Published
2 years ago
Description
Burges Salmon wishes to appoint a key sub-contractor (subject to CCS approval) to support and enhance its delivery of legal services relating to public and similar inquiries work under Burges Salmon's appointment to Lot 1 of the Crown Commercial Service Legal Services Panel RM6179. Burges Salmon will work collaboratively with the successful bidder in the preparation of certain tenders and opportunities under the Legal Services Panel (RM6179) and deliver resultant appointments on such basis as may be determined on project by project basis. Our aim is to establish a fair and open competitive process for bidders in order to identify the solution that most closely meets our requirements. Shortlisted suppliers may be invited to present their proposal face to face or virtually. Burges Salmon requires the bidder to demonstrate on no more than 2 sides of A4: • extensive experience, knowledge and understanding of delivering legal services relating to public and similar inquiries (including statutory and non-statutory inquiries and significant inquests); • experience in acting as Solicitor to the Inquiry, and of the issues likely to face an Inquiry both from the perspective of the Inquiry itself and of Core Participants; •the ability to bring in additional support for resilience (such as paralegal document reviewers) if required; • strong leadership, organisational skills and ability to work flexibly and collaboratively when acting for Solicitor to the Inquiry and/or Core Participants; and • experience in building relationships including examples of developing and maintaining the confidence of senior stakeholders. The appointed bidder is expected to hold ISO 9001 (QMS), ISO 22301:2019 (Business Continuity), ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management Systems), ISO/IEC 27002:2013 (IT), ISO/IEC 27031:2011 (IT) and ISO 22313:2020 (Security) certification or equivalents, and Cyber Essentials Plus. The appointed bidder will be required to contract with Burges Salmon on a full flow-down of the terms of Burges Salmon's RM6179 CCS Framework Contract including specific terms applicable to each Call-Off Contract for which the bidder supports Burges Salmon. This shall include delivering services on such rates and discounts as Burges Salmon may agree from time to time with CCS, supporting its social value commitments to CCS and promptly providing all relevant management information. Any appointment by Burges Salmon is subject to final approval by CCS.
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