Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-02-14
Buyer: Scottish Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79100000
Estimated value: 15000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-03-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The legal services framework will cover the provision of legal services. The firms appointed to the Framework Agreement will provide a range of legal services relevant to central government organisations in Scotland. The Framework Agreement consists of 6 lots:
Lot 3: requires handling of reparation actions; general commercial litigation; arbitrations; fatal accident inquiries; public local inquiries; construction disputes and adjudications; health and safety investigations; and Employment Law services.
Lot 2: requires advice and assistance on all aspects of debt recovery, including small claims, summary cause, Sheriff Court and Court of Session recovery actions; post-decree enforcement; earnings arrestments; inhibitions; recovery of overpayment of benefits and rent arrears.
Lot 4: requires advice covering a broad range of large scale infrastructure and/or commercial projects (including new and ongoing road and rail construction projects) and complex, high value projects (including ports and harbours); future infrastructure developments; and related commercial and procurement advice; IT projects; organisational projects; renewable energy projects (on-shore and off-shore windfarms, tidal development); and related commercial advice, State Aid advice and procurement advice; advice on maritime issues and advice on ports, harbours and associated infrastructure. It will also include advice on company rescue and restructuring and any litigation or dispute resolution issues arising out of any work allocated under this lot.
Lot 5: requires conveyancing; acquisition and sale of property; commercial leasing; crofting matters including sales and recovery of rents; provision of services when entering into new leases of property and advice relating to termination of existing leases; shared equity; construction contracts; securities; ranking arrangements; section 32 agreements; property management arrangements and lands tribunal matters; registration of land interests; ability to source property advice for jurisdictions outwith Scotland.
Lot 1 will cover a broad range of commercial and contractual work arising including advice on commercial arrangements necessary to support projects; drafting of contracts and other commercial documents; compliance; advising on contractual issues; corporate matters including setting up companies and conserving corporate governance, finance and assets.
— Contractors will provide Framework Public Bodies with advice for matters falling within all of these services.
4B.5.1 to 4B5.3 — It is a requirement of this framework that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain, prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded framework, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
— employer’s liability insurance in accordance with any legal obligation for the time being in force.
The legal services Framework Agreement will be available for use by the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross-border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the office of the advocate general, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Student Loans Company Ltd, the Forestry Commission, the Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Business Stream Ltd, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the foregoing.
Information about the Review of Public Procurement in Scotland and links to the other Centres of Expertise are available at:
The legal services framework has been divided into 6 lots. A maximum number of 6 suppliers will be appointed to each lot.
Full details of the lots, the award criteria with weightings and scores can be found in the invitation to tender.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
ESPD (Sco)-Section 2: Sub-contractors who are not being relied upon to meet Selection Criteria-A separate ESPD (Sco) will not be required at this stage.

Eligibility requirements: This Section refers to Section A of Part IV of ESPD (Scotland) and covers question 4A.2: Bidders must be registered with, and regulated by, The Law Society of Scotland.

Award value: 15000000