The Provision of Legal Services to MFB

⁠⁠⁠Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Service Board (MFB) provide services to almost three million Melbourne residents, workers and visitors and safeguard assets and infrastructure worth billions of dollars. Our services cover the metropolitan district, an area of over 1,000 square kilometres.

The MFB:
* Delivers fire and emergency management services;
* Drives systemic change to the built environment through reforms to building design, regulations and legislation;
* Invests in research; and
* Develops prevention programs that improve community safety and build resilience.

MFB also provides specialist operational support across Australia and the Asia Pacific region as required.

The majority of MFB services occur in the metropolitan district of Victoria that reach across 26 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and include:

* 47 Fire Stations
* 4 District Offices
* 5 Offices
* 2 Workshop

The opportunity offered to propsective vendors for this Request for Tender is the Provision of Legal services to MFB including the following areas of Law:

* Commercial and Contract Law
* Employment, Human Resources & Industrial Relations
* Property
* Litigation
* Government, Administrative, Public & Compliance

MFB intends to establish a non exclusive panel of law firms to provide MFB with legal services for a period initially of three (3) years, with an option to extend the contract for 2 further periods of one (1) year to be reviewed on an annual basis and subject to performance standards being achieved and maintained.

The purpose of this Request for Tender is to:

* Ensure MFB have access to a panel of Service Providers upon which they can rely to provide high quality legal advice, general legal services and other value added services; and

* Provide sufficient details of the services required and the evaluation criteria to enable potential Service Providers to submit tenders which will provide sufficient and relevant information by which tenders can be assessed by MFB.