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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