The Board of the pension protection fund (the ''Board'') wishes to establish a panel of law firms to provide comprehensive legal services to support the Board.

Potential providers must be authorised and regulated appropriately, possess suitable professional indemnity insurance cover and be able to provide the required services.

This procurement will be conducted under the Light touch regime. This procurement relates to legal services within the meaning of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) and will be subject to limited regulation and accordingly will be conducted in accordance with regulations 74 to 76 of the PCR 2015.

Core services.

— Pensions.

— Financial Services.

— Litigation.

— Insolvency.

The following general description is not exhaustive but serves as an illustration of the areas which we believe fall within different service specialisms.

— Pensions including contentious and non-contentious pensions issues.

— Financial services including Regulatory services, Investment funds and Asset management.

— Litigation.

— Debt recovery.

— Insolvency including restructuring and corporate.

— Real estate.

— Non-financial regulatory services including, corporate governance, compliance and data protection.

— Public law including, Freedom of information, State aid, Public procurement.

— General commercial including employment advice and Intellectual property.

— Taxation.

Assessment period tasks may consist of:

— Admissible rules,

— Benefit specification,

— Deeds of removal and appointment,

— Risk identification (including identification of potential claims),

— Equalisation review,

— Ad hoc advice.