Legal services - TVA

Legal Services

TVA is seeking legal services support on an as-needed, if-needed basis. TVA encourages the submission of proposals from law firms and individual practitioners. References in this RFP to a "firm" is inclusive of individual practitioners.

After evaluation of proposals, TVA anticipates executing a "blanket" contract with the successful offeror(s) for one or more types of legal services that may include, but will not necessarily be limited to, the following: litigation (contract, environmental, tort, employment, and condemnation), antitrust, regulatory compliance before the EPA, FERC, NRC, and relevant state regulatory bodies (environmental, fossil, hydro, nuclear, transmission, realty), employment and labor relations, nuclear licensing and safety, nuclear employee concerns, transactions, intellectual property, retirement benefits, procurement, construction contracting, and strategic advice. Offerors may submit proposals to fulfill one or more of these functional areas. With regard to transactions, regulatory compliance, and strategic advice, TVA may in particular seek services in connection with emergent issues in the fast-changing electric utility marketplace.

TVA's practice has been to perform nearly all of its legal services in-house. TVA expects to continue to perform a substantial majority of its legal services with in-house staff. However, TVA intends to utilize outside firms and individual practitioners for certain specialized services in targeted areas to address emerging issues and to relieve periodic staff overload.

TVA's spend for outside legal services naturally varies from year to year. Therefore, TVA is not able to predict with certainty what its future outside legal services expenditures will be. TVA's fiscal year 2017 budget for outside legal services is approximately $1 million.