Tourism Ireland requires legal services in respect of the full range of its core and non-core services. Tourism Ireland wishes to establish five single party framework agreements for legal services, its requirements in this regard have been divided into a number of lots as follows:

Lot 1 - General Operations [Freedom of Information , ICT – Licensing /Intellectual property /trade marks / copyright, Data Protection, Media / advertising / promotion, Web presence, General legal drafting];

Lot 2 - Properties & Securities [Property – provenance, leases, deeds, licences, CPO's, Disability Acts, Security and recoupment of monies in cases of non- payment of invoices (debt recovery)]

Lot 3 - Employment [Contracts of employment/ contracts for services; Employer Liability Employment Practices Disciplinary and grievance procedures, dignity in the workplace; Acquired Rights/transfer of undertakings; Pensions; Human Resource due diligence including terms and conditions of employment]

Lot 4 - Procurement [Procurement Law; Suitability/Award criteria and potential legal challenges to the award of contracts]

Lot 5 - Specialist Information [High Level/Strategic or reputational issues which may require responses within a very short timescale e.g. due diligence, governance, policy or structural issues; Public, administrative and corporate law; Governance; Dispute resolution]

This tender is only in respect of legal services in the Republic of Ireland and matters dealt with under Irish law.