Your Housing Group wishes to establish a legal services framework agreement to provide legal advice and support to the business across five lots. These lots are:
— Development and Specialist Property Transactions (Lot 1),
— Sales and Routine Property Transactions (Lot 2),
— Corporate and Finance (Lot 3),
— Employment and HR (Lot 4), and
— Housing Management Including Out of Hours Service (Lot 5).
The panel will be established for four (4) years. Expenditure across the panel will vary according to business activity. As a guide expenditure across all lots was approximately GBP 2 500 000 in 2019-2020.
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This Lot (1) is for the provision of legal advice in respect of development and specialist property transactions. This includes but is not limited to acquisitions and disposals of land and property, site and property development including associated plot sales, environmental and planning, construction, compulsory purchase, procurement and contractual matters in relation to development, PFI/JV and specialist property transactions and stock rationalisation.
This Lot (2) is for the provision of legal advice in respect of sales and routine property transactions. This includes but is not limited to Right to buy/right to acquire, staircasing and assignments, outright sales, leases, lease extensions, licensing and conveyancing. The number of transactions and annual expenditure will fluctuate according to business activity.
This Lot (3) is for the provision of legal advice in respect of Corporate and Finance Transactions. This includes but is not limited to group structures, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, regulatory requirements, company and charity law, loan facilities, property charging, multi-disciplinary legal support, procurement and contractual matters and legal advice in respect of taxation, insurance and investments.
This Lot (4) is for the provision of legal advice in respect of employment. This includes but is not limited to employment law, TUPE, equal opportunities, pensions, employment disputes and organisational change.
This Lot (5) is for the provision of legal advice in respect of housing management. This includes but is not limited to ASB cases, possession proceedings, injunctions, debt recovery, disrepair, rent and service charge matters, leaseholder consultations, tenancy agreements and policy and procedural change.