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Cobalt Housing e-Tendering

Legal Services 2022-26

Business ServicesCPV 79100000
Value£1.6m
Awarded22 Apr 2022
Published11 Mar 2022
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£1.6mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.8m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The purpose of this tender process is to select providers based on the lot structure shown below that can offer the legal services required by Cobalt.

The contract/framework agreement will be for four years commencing 1st July 2022.

Lot 1 will be awarded to the highest ranked Tenderer according to the evaluation criteria set out in section 6 of this ITT.

The Lot 1 Provider will have the capabilities to deliver the full scope of services shown in 'Appendix 1 - Service Level Agreement', and summarised here - - Corporate, Governance & Regulation - Housing & Asset Management - Property, Development & Regeneration - Commercial, Contract & Procurement - Finance - HR Cobalt will look to issue roughly 85% - 90% of its total legal services to the Lot 1 Provider.

This volume of work will then ensure that the Provider is able to maintain Lot 2 will be a framework consisting of the next 4 highest ranked Tenderers that have indicated in 1.7 of Part A Response that they wish to be considered for Lot 2.

Lot 2 Providers will be required to offer the same scope of services as Lot 1, with full detail shown in 'Appendix 1 - Service Level Agreement' It is anticipated that Lot 2 will mainly be utilized for quoted project work, however Cobalt reserves the right to issue any work to Lot 2 Providers.

There will be no ranking applied to the framework, meaning that Cobalt is under no obligation to issue works to highest ranked or lowest priced.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Lot 1 Provider will have

The Lot 1 Provider will have the capabilities to deliver the full scope of services shown in 'Appendix 1.

02

This volume of work will then ensure

This volume of work will then ensure that the Provider is able to maintain.

03

Lot 2 Providers will be required

Lot 2 Providers will be required to offer the same scope of services as Lot 1, with full detail shown in 'Appendix 1.

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