Legal Services Contract Management and Administration Services

Description

The Contracting Authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The Contracting Authority wishes to maintain an element of management and administration to these legal services and therefore intends to appoint a single tenderer to provide legal services management and administration services. The Tenderer appointed will be responsible for the following; • Monitoring and reporting on cost and activity from firms appointed to provide legal services • Collating, consolidating management information from those firms • Providing Tusla with required management information including but not limited to resource inputs by professional grade. • Preparing all invoices including disbursements from each of the firms for discharge of payment, to all participating firms, by Tusla • (payments to Guardian ad Litem and Counsel are not in scope) Lot 1: The Contracting Authority intends to award contracts for legal services, pursuant to a separate public procurement process currently underway. The Contracting Authority wishes to maintain an element of management and administration to these legal services and therefore intends to appoint a single tenderer to provide legal services management and administration services. The Tenderer appointed will be responsible for the following; • Monitoring and reporting on cost and activity from firms appointed to provide legal services • Collating, consolidating management information from those firms • Providing Tusla with required management information including but not limited to resource inputs by professional grade. • Preparing all invoices including disbursements from each of the firms for discharge of payment, to all participating firms, by Tusla • (payments to Guardian ad Litem and Counsel are not in scope) Tenderers must be in a position to provide management information that gives Tusla full and early visibility of all service-related issues arising including court activity, spend issues, activity issues etc.