On line and Print Law Library Services

Concepts

• public law partnership
• legal advisory and information
• harlow essex
• law library
• legal research services
• members of the public law partnership
• case law coverage
• eu law
• case law updates
• print law library services

Location

East of England

Description

Framework for the provision of on line and print law library legal research services for the members of the Public Law Partnership to call upon, as required by each authority and as described in the Authorities Brief. The Authority envisages appointing up to 3 top scoring suppliers, where there are less than 3 Tenderers who meet the requirements set out in the ITT and Brief the Authority will appoint all those who do meet the requirements

Total Quantity or Scope

Framework which members of the Public law Partnership may call upon, as required by the member of the PLP Partnership on a case by case basis: . Services Sought a. Provision of on line fully consolidated legislation, case law coverage, journals, EU law, current awareness articles, bulletins, alerts, and access to a number of leading titles, to include an Index of Legal Terms and Statutory Annotations. b. Access to text books and looseleafs, (hard copies and on-line) including up-to-the minute alerting, rapid reporting of cases and authoritative commentary in key areas for public sector lawyers. c. Access to maintained resources to include e.g. practice notes, standard forms/documents/precedents; standard clauses and drafting notes. d. Free of charge and unlimited in time on line training for all users of all on line research products. In addition the PLP Board anticipate the inclusion of value add offerings including and not limited to the following: a. Support in the production of PLP monthly newsletter in terms of branding and content, such as case law updates and interesting articles on relevant subject matters; b. Support and sponsorship of training events/ law students and NQ’s; c. website links, d. free of charge licences for non- fee earning support staff and e. Other creative responses to support the PLP Partnership f. Easy access use and management statistics. Additional information: The current expenditure in total over the last three years by the PLP Partners is in excess of GBP 1,045,000 , with approximately ½ being on-line legal research materials including legislation, case law, articles, bulletins, forms and precedents (collectively known as “legal resource materials”) and ½ encyclopaedias (hard copy and on-line) and text books.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79140000 - Legal advisory and information services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are not available.

Other Information

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