NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR LEGAL SERVICES

FOR LEGAL SERVICES

The New Jersey Schools Development Authority ("NJSDA") seeks to engage a number of Firms to provide legal services to the NJSDA in eight (8) legal specialty areas. For each of the five (5) legal specialty areas of (1) Insurance Coverage, (2) Bankruptcy and Insolvency Proceedings, (3) Environmental Law, (4) Employment Law, and (5) Government Contracting, Bid Protests and Procurement, three (3) Firms will be engaged to assist the NJSDA's Division of Chief counsel and to provide legal advice, consultative services, and, when required, formal representation of the NJSDA. For each of the three (3) legal specialty areas of (6) Professional Errors and Omissions and Cost Recovery, (7) Construction Litigation and (8) Real Estate, the NJSDA will engage six (6) firms to assist the NJSDA's Division of Chief Counsel and to provide legal advice, consultative services, and, when required, formal representation of the NJSDA. An interested Firm may submit a Proposal to be considered for engagement in any or all of these specialty areas. Specific work assignments to Firms that are engaged through this procurement will be made on a "Task Order" basis as determined by the NJSDA. Task order assignments will be made on a rotating basis and multiple matters may be included as part of a single task order assignment. Assignments will be made subject to Firm availability and a conflict of interest check. Firms will be required to submit a proposed budget for each task order assignment. The budget shall be subject to NJSDA's approval and acceptance prior to commencement of services under the task order assignment.

Package Number: GP-0225-R01
Package Name: Legal Services
NJSDA Prequalification: None Required

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The NJSDA shall not hold a traditional pre-proposal conference for this procurement. All firms wishing to submit a proposal must sign-in electronically by sending a mandatory email Notice of Intent to Participate to Dave Kutch at dkutch@njsda.gov no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on July 28, 2015.

Firms may submit written questions regarding this procurement to the NJSDA by sending them by email to Dave Kutch at dkutch@njsda.gov no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on July 28, 2015. The questions and answers shall be provided via an addendum to the RFP to each firm that submitted a timely email Notice of Intent to Participate.

Proposals must be received by 4:30 PM Eastern Time on August 14, 2015, and may be mailed or hand delivered as set forth in the RFP.

Evaluation Criteria: Submissions that are not responsive will be rejected without evaluation. Responsive submissions will be ranked pursuant to the following evaluation criteria:

1. Understanding of the Purposes of this Engagement (5 points)
   
2. Firm Experience - Case Studies (35 points)
   
3. Experience of Key Team Members (35 points); and
   
4. Approach to Providing the Required Scope of Services (25 points).
   
   

To be selected, a firm must be approved for moral integrity, pursuant to a review by the New Jersey State Police, as set forth in the RFP.

Bidders must comply with the requirements of P.L. 1975, c. 127 and P.L. 2005, c. 51, and implementing rules.

DATE ADVERTISED: July 17, 2015