Public Procurement Law

• Structuring the public procurement process
  • Clarifying issues in advance, e.g. whether an obligation exists to organise an invitation to tender/choice of the procurement process
  • Preparing flow charts
  • Drafting tendering documents

• Advising on how to award contracts electronically

• Drafting procedure letters
  • Developing evaluation models
  • Drafting industry-specific contracts 

• Providing on-going advice during public procurement processes
  • Handling bidder queries and complaints
  • Coordinating the entire public procurement process in the relevant panels

• Advising on public procurement law in the field of IT

• Evaluating bids
  • Assisting with the evaluation of bids
  • Making proposals for the award of contracts 

• Assisting with the final negotiations/the conclusion of the contract
  • Conducting contract negotiations
  • Documenting the public procurement process

• Advising on in-house and in-state transactions that do not require a public procurement process
• Developing models that do not give rise to (new) obligations under public procurement law for the provision of the required services in municipal corporations

• Providing legal and strategic support throughout the public procurement process
• Reviewing the contract award conditions
• Drafting bidder queries and letters of complaint
• Assisting with the contract negotiations
• Advising on how to prepare bids with a special focus on the criteria defined by the contracting authority

Representing contracting authorities or bidders

• before the European Court of Justice
• before the ordinary courts of law or administrative courts
• in subsequent review proceedings before the competent public procurement chamber and the competent higher regional court

• Advising beneficiaries
  • preventively on how to comply with the requirements stipulated in the subsidy approval notice
  • in the event of an imminent revocation of subsidies granted
• Carrying out public procurement reviews (e.g. on behalf of state banks)

• Providing advice on the award of contracts regarding the use of transport routes for electricity and gas pursuant to Section 46 German Energy Industry Act (EnWG)
• Providing advice on the award of service licences (e.g. supply of drinking water, day-care centre/school meals, broadband cable)