Our range of advisory services
Our team can advise you on all issues that arise at a national and international level in connection with public procurement law. Whether you are a contracting authority or a bidder – we are an experienced partner when it comes to supporting you in a public procurement process so as to obtain the best possible result. We use our extensive legal and economic expertise creatively in our work – including at the interfaces between public procurement law and budget, European and public business law – with a view to optimally implementing your public procurement strategy.
You can rely on our many years of experience and our in-depth knowledge when preparing and carrying out the award of public contracts: we structure the entire public procurement process, draft the tendering documents, assist you with the evaluation of the bids, and conduct the contract negotiations. If you are a company, we have the necessary expertise to provide you throughout the public procurement process with top-quality legal and strategic advice.
We keep an eye on funding projects already at the political planning stage. As a result of this awareness in combination with our excellent industry knowledge, notably in the areas of Energy, Health Care & Life Science, Information Tech & Telecommunication, Mobility & Logistics, and Real Estate & Infrastructure, we know at an early stage about any subsidies that could be of interest to our clients. We monitor the development of funding programmes and subsequently advise you on how to best use the funds for your business activities.
We work out precise answers to your questions in all areas of public procurement law. As a full-service law firm, we can draw on the professional knowledge of our colleagues from other fields of law and, therefore, always come up with the best possible solutions to your problems.
Our range of advisory services
- 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)
Caroline Ackermann
Partner
Munich
Hannah Aigner
Senior Associate
Munich
Darja Amelcenko, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Berlin
Małgorzata Albe, LL.M.
Junior Consultant
Leipzig
Sabrina Behbehani
Senior Associate
Munich
Rolf Corsten
Of Counsel
Dusseldorf
Eric Doyé
Associate
Leipzig
Stephan Finck
Partner
Leipzig
Katharina Stefanie Franke
Senior Associate
Essen
Dr Thomas Gohrke
Partner
Hanover, Leipzig
Dr jur Stephan Götze
Partner
Berlin
Jakob Gauly
Associate
Dusseldorf
Julian Günniker
Associate
Essen
Steffen Häberer
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Rut Herten-Koch, M.A.
Partner
Berlin
Dr Henning Holz, LL.M.
Counsel
Hanover
Nina Hahnke
Senior Associate
Essen
Andrea Heim
Senior Associate
Stuttgart
Charlotte Jodocy
Senior Associate
Essen
Karsten Köhler
Partner
Leipzig
Dr Piotr Kwiatkowski, LL.M.
Counsel
Essen
Dr Franziska Klaß-Dingeldey, MLE
Senior Associate
Hanover
Dr Jana Karras
Associate
Leipzig
Nina Klünker, LL.M. (KCL)
Associate
Berlin
Jan Lachhein
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Stefan Mager
Partner
Essen
Achim Meier
Partner
Essen
Matthias Mehlwitz, LL.M.
Counsel
Essen
Annkatrin Merzig
Senior Associate
Essen
Simon Magers
Associate
Hanover
Marie Meier
Associate
Essen
Daniel Naumann
Partner
Leipzig
Tobias Osseforth, Mag. rer. publ.
Partner
Munich
Ulf-Dieter Pape
Partner
Hanover
Henner M. Puppel
Partner
Essen
Julian Plötz
Associate
Leipzig
Martin Steuber, LL.M.
Partner
Dusseldorf
Jenny Schindler
Senior Associate
Munich, Hamburg
Sophie Schulz
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Matthias Schaut, LL.M. (Duke)
Associate
Essen
Morten Steimann
Associate
Essen
Henrike Sophie Tröger
Associate
Leipzig
Dr Melanie Verstege
Counsel
Essen