OJEU Contracts

Official name: Onward Group Ltd (acting on behalf of itself and any current and future subsidiaries)
Postal address: 12 Hanover Street
Town: Liverpool
NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)
Postal code: L1 4AA
Country: United Kingdom
E-mail: procurement@onward.co.uk
Internet address(es):
Main address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/onwardhomes/aspx/Home
Address of the buyer profile: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/onwardhomes/aspx/Home

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/onwardhomes/aspx/Home

Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/onwardhomes/aspx/Home

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the abovementioned address

Electronic communication requires the use of tools and devices that are not generally available. Unrestricted and full direct access to these tools and devices is possible, free of charge, at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/onwardhomes/aspx/Home

Body governed by public law

Housing and community amenities

External Legal Services

Reference number: OG-P931

Services

Onward Group Ltd is seeking to re-procure its panel of Legal Services providers through a number of specialisms and invites suitably qualified legal firms experienced in social housing matters to express an interest. This is a restricted procedure (in two stages): legal firms should provide a response in accordance with the requirements laid out in the Invitation to Tender document, which in the first instance will consist of a selection questionnaire. The panel will take the form of a framework agreement and will last for a four-year period commencing on 1 April 2021. The contract will first be advertised through the despatch of a notice to OJEU. Procurement documents will be published on our e-tendering portal accordingly.

Value excluding VAT: 6 000 000.00 GBP

This contract is divided into lots: yes

Tenders may be submitted for all lots

Property Conveyancing

Lot No: 1

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of property conveyancing services including: purchases/disposals of real estate (general), acquisitions and disposals (residential and commercial), auction acquisitions and disposals.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

PROPERTY COMPLIANCE & ENFORCEMENT

Lot No: 2

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of property compliance and enforcement legal services including: disrepair claims, access sanctions (servicing and maintenance injunctions), terminating licence agreements and obtaining possession, dilapidations, Asset Management advice, contract claims, statutory notices, party wall, boundary disputes.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

PROPERTY COMMERCIAL & ADVICE

Lot No: 3

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of property-related legal services including: property rationalisation including purchases, disposals, stock swaps, Demolition and consultation, Title investigations, Agreements for lease/ licences, Granting and taking leases, Management agreements, Managing Agent issues including those arising from Tripartite Agreements, Leaseholder and Managing Agent, Lease management e.g. licences to assign, licences for alterations, deeds of variation, lease extensions, rent review, Advice relating to existing leases and management agreements, Commercial lease renewals and surrenders, Enforcement and forfeiture, First Tier Tribunal representation, Establishing property PFI ventures, Plot sales (commercial), Consent issues relating to restrictions on title, Ground rent issues, Property litigation, Market rent.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

DEVELOPMENT – CONVEYANCING

Lot No: 4

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of development conveyancing legal services including: New build plot sale – leasehold and freehold, Auction sale and purchase, individual property and land sales and acquisitions, Right to Buy, Right to Acquire, Shared ownership, Social Homebuy, Statutory Agreements e.g. s.38, 278, 104, Planning Agreements e.g. s.106 and s.111, Post sale – staircasing, assign, alterations.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

DEVELOPMENT

Lot No: 5

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of development-related legal services including: Site development and assembly, Options to purchase, Acquisitions/ disposals of land/ buildings and tenanted stock, Stock swaps, Development Agreements, Development Funding (including HCA Help to Buy agreements), Management Agreements, Establishing development-related management companies, Construction Agreements (including collateral warranties), Contentious Construction, Novation agreements, Wayleaves and other utility agreements, Building licences, Grant agreements, Health and safety, Overage, Planning advice, Property taxation advice, Procurement and contractual matters, Development disputes (including litigation), Environmental issues, Dilapidations, Adverse possession including traveller issues, Disposals of ground rents.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

FINANCE

Lot No: 6

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of finance-related legal services including: Mergers & acquisitions, Acquisitions and disposals, New business opportunities, Joint ventures, Corporate finance, Financial services regulation, Corporate insolvency law, Constitutional issues, Compliance, Rent setting, Service charges.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

FUNDING & CHARGING

Lot No: 7

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of funding and charging legal services including: Banking and finance including the raising of bank funding, capital markets issuance and hedging arrangements, Charging and security work, Treasury (debt finance, listed securities, bonds, funds), Development draw down funding.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Lot No: 8

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of corporate governance related legal services including: Mergers & acquisitions, Acquisitions and disposals, Joint ventures, New business opportunities, Amalgamations and restructuring, Stock transfers, Charity law, Industrial and provident society law, Constitutional reviews, Board member powers and responsibilities, Company secretarial, Corporate Policies and Procedures, Companies Act Law.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

HOUSING MANAGEMENT

Lot No: 9

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of housing management related legal services including: policy advice, advice & representation including tenancy rights & obligations; rent; possession; injunction; general litigation; ASB solutions; debt; gas servicing; allocations; boundary disputes etc.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

GENERAL COMMERCIAL

Lot No: 10

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of general commercial legal services including: Competition law, Contract advice or drafting, eCommerce, Intellectual Property Rights & Trademarks, Public Procurement (including telecoms & IT, contracts and licenses), Procurement law, IT and information law including system maintenance & support agreements, defamation and the internet, and intellectual property, Regulatory law, Sale and acquisition of goods and services, Data protection and freedom of information.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

EMPLOYMENT

Lot No: 11

NUTS code: UKD NORTH WEST (ENGLAND)

Main site or place of performance:

Provision of employment-related legal services including: Employment law (contracts and policies), Equal opportunities, Equality & discrimination, Employee relations, Equal pay, TUPE, Tribunals, Grievances and disputes, Pensions, Health & safety (employees), Organisational change/ change management, Outsourcing/ contracting out.

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

Start: 01/04/2021

End: 31/03/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: no

Variants will be accepted: no

Options: no

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

List and brief description of conditions:

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

Restricted procedure

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

Framework agreement with several operators

Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 33

In the case of framework agreements, provide justification for any duration exceeding 4 years:

N/a

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: yes

Date: 09/11/2020

Local time: 14:00

Date: 27/11/2020

English

Duration in months: 4 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

This is a recurrent procurement: no

Electronic invoicing will be accepted

Electronic payment will be used

The authority is not bound to accept any tender and reserves the right to cancel the procurement and not to proceed with all or part of the procurement, subject to the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The authority will not, under any circumstances, reimburse any expense incurred by potential providers in preparing their submissions for the procurement, nor shall it be liable for any loss of profits, loss of contracts or other losses suffered or incurred by a potential provider as a result of that potential provider not being awarded a contract pursuant to the procurement process.

Official name: High Court of England and Wales
Postal address: Royal Courts of Justice, Strand
Town: London
Postal code: WC1A 2LL
Country: United Kingdom

Official name: High Court of England and Wales
Postal address: Royal Courts of Justice, Strand
Town: London
Postal code: WC1A 2LL
Country: United Kingdom

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

The authority will observe a standstill period following the notification of the intention to award the contract and conduct itself in respect of any appeals in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Official name: Cabinet Office
Postal address: 70 Whitehall
Town: Liverpool
Postal code: SW1A 2AS
Country: United Kingdom

09/10/2020