Public contract award · TED 181061-2025
- Framework agreement
- 7 suppliers share it
ENQEIR884 – Legal Services Framework
EirGrid plc awarded this contract to McCann FitzGerald LLP, William Fry Limited, Philip Lee LLP, Mason Hayes and Curran LLP, Eversheds Sutherland LLP, Bird and Bird LLP and Matheson LLP on 20 March 2025, using a competitive procedure with negotiation, and 9 bids were received. The notice publishes €35,000,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 7 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 96 months, to Mar 2033.
- Award published
- Term ends
Open the official notice on TED (opens in a new tab)How to check this record
Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedMcCann FitzGerald LLPNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedWilliam Fry LimitedMatched by name and legal form
- Supplier namedPhilip Lee LLPNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMason Hayes and Curran LLPNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedEversheds Sutherland LLPNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedBird and Bird LLPNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMatheson LLPNot matched to a company record
The notice names 7 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How long does it run?
A published term of 8 years, to Mar 2033.
The term is the notice’s duration counted from the award date. A contract may be extended or end early; the notices do not say.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Competitive Procedure With NegotiationThe buyer negotiated the terms with the bidders it selected.
- Competition type
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 9Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- Subject (CPV)
- Legal services
- Framework agreement
- YesTED records this as a framework: the value is a ceiling for what may be bought, not money spent.
- Buyer town
- Dublin
- eTenders tender ID
- 3309644eTenders' own page for a tender needs a free supplier login, so this record links to the OGP open data on data.gov.ie instead.
- TED notice
- 181061-2025 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
Check it yourself
The official records this page is built from.
- TED contract award notice 181061-2025 (opens in a new tab)
- eTenders awards dataset (OGP, data.gov.ie) (opens in a new tab)One file for every eTenders award: look for tender ID 3309644. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"ENQEIR884 – Legal Services Framework", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from TED contract award notice 181061-2025. https://declared.ie/contracts/ted-181061-2025/enqeir884-legal-services-framework. Data refreshed 12 October 2026.
Published records, not allegations. An award shows who a public body chose to buy from, as it published; it is not a payment and says nothing about how the supplier was chosen beyond what the notice states.