2024/018 Establishment of a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law for Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland wishes to establish a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law. Enterprise Ireland makes a range of complex and high impact State Aid law decisions in order to support Irish businesses and Enterprise Ireland requires external State Aid legal advice in …

CPV: 79100000 Legal services, 79111000 Legal advisory services, 79110000 Legal advisory and representation services, 79112000 Legal representation services, 79140000 Legal advisory and information services
Deadline:
Dec. 16, 2024, noon
Deadline type:
Submitting a bid
Place of execution:
2024/018 Establishment of a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law for Enterprise Ireland
Awarding body:
Enterprise Ireland
Award number:
0

1. Buyer

1.1 Buyer

Official name : Enterprise Ireland
Legal type of the buyer : Body governed by public law
Activity of the contracting authority : Economic affairs

2. Procedure

2.1 Procedure

Title : 2024/018 Establishment of a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law for Enterprise Ireland
Description : Enterprise Ireland wishes to establish a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law. Enterprise Ireland makes a range of complex and high impact State Aid law decisions in order to support Irish businesses and Enterprise Ireland requires external State Aid legal advice in relation to many of these decisions. The Enterprise Ireland legal function is particularly focused on the provision of funding to Irish companies by way of grants, equity investments, convertible loan note subscriptions and repayable advances, in each case in compliance with State Aid law. In that regard, it avails of GBER and de minimis exemptions and also avails of EU state aid frameworks. This Competition offers interested service providers with specialist expertise in State Aid law the opportunity to participate in a competition for a place on a multi-party framework agreement. Enterprise Ireland requires firms with specialist expertise in the area of State Aid law with a record of: (a) advising Government Agencies in relation to interpreting the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and other European Treaties, and related European Commission and Council Regulations, Directives, Decisions and Guidelines, in each case in relation to State Aid; (b) appearing before the European Court of Justice and the General Court in State Aid cases; and (c) communicating with the European Commission on behalf of client public bodies in relation to State Aid issues; and (d) advising client public bodies in relation to notifying the European Commission in relation to State Aid. The full list of requirements is contained within the tender documents. As the subject matter of this competition is considered as a Title III service within the context of Directive 2014/24/EU, where the choice of procedure is open to the Contracting Authority, the procedure chosen on this occasion is the Accelerated Single Stage Procedure with Negotiation. Tenderers must associate themselves with the competition in order to access the tender documents, ask and receive queries and submit a tender response. All responses must be submitted in a ZIP FILE format. Please note that this competition is being re-advertised as a new competition. The old competition, with Resource ID 4248055 is cancelled.
Procedure identifier : f9bd7111-d058-4dfe-984f-67cb6c45229f
Type of procedure : Other single stage procedure
Main features of the procedure : Tenders are invited from all interested parties on basis of the minimum based specification, award criteria and pricing documents as outlined in this Invitation to Tender. Enterprise Ireland will evaluate those tenders against the award criteria and reserves the right to: (a) Move straight to a contract award decision, without negotiation (b) To apply the successive reduction rule to reduce the number of firms invited to the negotiation phase; or (c) To invite all firms to negotiation meetings.

2.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services
Main classification ( cpv ): 79100000 Legal services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79111000 Legal advisory services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79110000 Legal advisory and representation services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79112000 Legal representation services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79140000 Legal advisory and information services

2.1.2 Place of performance

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland

2.1.3 Value

Maximum value of the framework agreement : 1 500 000 Euro

2.1.4 General information

Legal basis :
Directive 2014/24/EU

2.1.5 Terms of procurement

Terms of submission :
Maximum number of lots for which one tenderer can submit tenders : 0

5. Lot

5.1 Lot technical ID : LOT-0001

Title : 2024/018 Establishment of a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law for Enterprise Ireland
Description : Enterprise Ireland wishes to establish a Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Legal Services in the area of European State Aid Law. Enterprise Ireland makes a range of complex and high impact State Aid law decisions in order to support Irish businesses and Enterprise Ireland requires external State Aid legal advice in relation to many of these decisions. The Enterprise Ireland legal function is particularly focused on the provision of funding to Irish companies by way of grants, equity investments, convertible loan note subscriptions and repayable advances, in each case in compliance with State Aid law. In that regard, it avails of GBER and de minimis exemptions and also avails of EU state aid frameworks. This Competition offers interested service providers with specialist expertise in State Aid law the opportunity to participate in a competition for a place on a multi-party framework agreement. Enterprise Ireland requires firms with specialist expertise in the area of State Aid law with a record of: (a) advising Government Agencies in relation to interpreting the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and other European Treaties, and related European Commission and Council Regulations, Directives, Decisions and Guidelines, in each case in relation to State Aid; (b) appearing before the European Court of Justice and the General Court in State Aid cases; and (c) communicating with the European Commission on behalf of client public bodies in relation to State Aid issues; and (d) advising client public bodies in relation to notifying the European Commission in relation to State Aid. The full list of requirements is contained within the tender documents. As the subject matter of this competition is considered as a Title III service within the context of Directive 2014/24/EU, where the choice of procedure is open to the Contracting Authority, the procedure chosen on this occasion is the Accelerated Single Stage Procedure with Negotiation. Tenderers must associate themselves with the competition in order to access the tender documents, ask and receive queries and submit a tender response. All responses must be submitted in a ZIP FILE format. Please note that this competition is being re-advertised as a new competition. The old competition, with Resource ID 4248055 is cancelled.
Internal identifier : 0

5.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services
Main classification ( cpv ): 79100000 Legal services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79111000 Legal advisory services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79110000 Legal advisory and representation services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79112000 Legal representation services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 79140000 Legal advisory and information services

5.1.2 Place of performance

Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland
Additional information :

5.1.3 Estimated duration

Duration : 4 Year

5.1.5 Value

Estimated value excluding VAT : 1 500 000 Euro
Maximum value of the framework agreement : 1 500 000 Euro

5.1.6 General information

Reserved participation : Participation is not reserved.
Procurement Project not financed with EU Funds.
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

5.1.7 Strategic procurement

Aim of strategic procurement : No strategic procurement

5.1.9 Selection criteria

Criterion :
Type : Other
Name : See Tender Documents
Information about the second stage of a two-stage procedure :
The procedure will take place in successive stages. At each stage, some participants may be eliminated
The buyer reserves the right to award the contract on the basis of the initial tenders without any further negotiations

5.1.11 Procurement documents

Languages in which the procurement documents are officially available : English
Languages in which the procurement documents (or their parts) are unofficially available : English

5.1.12 Terms of procurement

Terms of submission :
Electronic submission : Required
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted : English
Electronic catalogue : Not allowed
Tenderers may submit more than one tender : Not allowed
Deadline for receipt of tenders : 16/12/2024 12:00 +00:00
Deadline until which the tender must remain valid : 12 Month
Terms of contract :
The execution of the contract must be performed within the framework of sheltered employment programmes : No
Electronic invoicing : Required

5.1.15 Techniques

Framework agreement :
Framework agreement, partly without reopening and partly with reopening of competition
Maximum number of participants : 4
Information about the dynamic purchasing system :
No dynamic purchase system
Electronic auction : no

5.1.16 Further information, mediation and review

Review organisation : The High Court of Ireland
Organisation providing offline access to the procurement documents : Enterprise Ireland
Organisation receiving requests to participate : Enterprise Ireland
Organisation processing tenders : Enterprise Ireland
TED eSender : European Dynamics S.A.

8. Organisations

8.1 ORG-0001

Official name : Enterprise Ireland
Registration number : 00000000
Postal address : The Plaza, East Point Business Park
Town : Dublin
Postcode : D3 E5R6
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland
Telephone : 017272000
Roles of this organisation :
Buyer
Organisation providing offline access to the procurement documents
Organisation receiving requests to participate
Organisation processing tenders

8.1 ORG-0002

Official name : The High Court of Ireland
Registration number : The High Court of Ireland
Department : The High Court of Ireland
Postal address : Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Town : Dublin
Postcode : D07 WDX8
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland
Telephone : +353 1 8886000
Roles of this organisation :
Review organisation

8.1 ORG-0003

Official name : European Dynamics S.A.
Registration number : 002024901000
Department : European Dynamics S.A.
Town : Athens
Postcode : 15125
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών ( EL301 )
Country : Greece
Telephone : +30 2108094500
Roles of this organisation :
TED eSender

11. Notice information

11.1 Notice information

Notice identifier/version : 6593dcd1-b2a5-4a06-bdf3-605908bcb6df - 01
Form type : Competition
Notice type : Contract notice – light regime
Notice dispatch date : 29/11/2024 15:18 +00:00
Languages in which this notice is officially available : English

11.2 Publication information

Notice publication number : 00737753-2024
OJ S issue number : 235/2024
Publication date : 03/12/2024