Decision details

Procurement of Legal Advice in support of the Leeds City Region HS2 Growth Strategy

Reference: D46341

Decision Maker: Director of City Development

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

In accordance with Contract Procedure Rule 3.1.8, this report seeks Director of City Development approval to undertake a procurement exercise for the procurement of external Legal Advisers to support the work proposed by the LCR HS2 Growth Strategy.

Decision:

The Director of City Development:

a) Agreed that the Council waives CPR 3.1.6 for the reasons set out in this report, and progresses an open tender exercise to select an external organisation to provide the Council with multi-disciplinary legal advice from a single advisor framework, in order to support on the scoping, planning, delivery and implementation of projects proposed by the Leeds City Region HS2 Growth Strategy.

b) In accordance with Contract Procedure Rule 3.1.8, agreed to the procurement methodology and, under Contract Procedure Rule 15.1, the evaluation criteria headlines as set out at paragraph 3.15 for the evaluation of legal firms through an open tender exercise.

c) Noted that given the scale and speciality of the legal services required they could not be provided in their entirety by Internal Service Providers, and that a market sounding exercise did not provide confidence that the most effective/best value provider was available from an approved framework.

d) Noted that the Principal Regeneration Officer will be responsible for implementing these actions.

Alternative options considered:

Option 1 -
Option 2 -
Option 3 -

Contact: Lee Arnell, Principal Regeneration Officer 0113 378 7717 Email: lee.arnell@leeds.gov.uk.

Publication date: 05/03/2018

Date of decision: 05/03/2018

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