Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

‘NAMED PARTY’ recently participated in a tender process run by Tusla – the Child and Family Agency (“Tusla”) for the provision of legal services relating to Lot 18 - Special Care (the “Legal Services”), notice of which was originally published by contract notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 4 November 2020 (Notice 2020/S 217-531499). By letter dated 13 July 2021, and received by NAMED PARTY on that date (the “Regret Letter”), Tusla informed us that we had been unsuccessful in the tender process, and that the preferred bidder was NAMED PARTY. We understand that the Office of