Inga Oldenburg

Inga Oldenburg advises private companies and public contracting authorities on the public procurement law aspects of planning and implementing domestic and EU-wide procurement procedures.

She advises both on large IT procurement procedures and on the award of construction, planning and service contracts at national and EU level. Her services include assisting with the preparation and implementation of the entire procedure, from the determination of contract volume and contract value to the drafting of the procurement documentation and review of the requests to participate and the tenders, through to the award of the contract. A special focus is on sustainable procurement. In addition, Inga Oldenburg also deals with and defends complaints and applications for review.

Public Procurement Law

Inga Oldenburg studied law at Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany) from 2013 to 2018, with an emphasis on economic administration, environment and infrastructure, which also included a series of lectures on privatisation and public procurement law. After university, she carried out her legal training at the Regional Court of Bochum, part of which involved working at Luther in public procurement law and in the central procurement office of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Inga Oldenburg was admitted to the German Bar in 2021 and joined Luther the same year.

• Police of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia – ongoing advice to the central procurement office of the North Rhine-Westphalian police in complex procurement processes (for example, award of various IT contracts regarding the procurement of hardware and software, including examining a wide range of public procurement law issues (such as product neutrality; determination of lots; prior involvement of bidders in the preparation of the procurement documentation; objective exclusivity situations), invitation to tender for services to support the EURO 2024 project group, preparation of diverse memos on a wide range of public procurement issues that are of practical relevance to police work, including on the permissibility of negotiated procedures without competition, or on mandatory tender procedures in certain circumstances)
• Criminal Investigation Department of the German state of Baden-Württemberg – advice on IT procurement procedures regarding the procurement of hardware and software
• Event organiser of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia – advice on invitation to tender for an IT contract (procurement of a document management system)
• Town of Herne – among other things, public procurement law advice on large projects (invitations to tender for construction contracts) regarding the procurement of a school building as an investor model (lease model) and construction of a new fire and rescue station in the town (three-digit million euro amount)
• Municipal company of the Town of Herne – advice on various invitations to tender for construction, architectural design and planning contracts regarding the conversion, rebuilding, construction and modernisation of schools and daycare centres
• Recipient of subsidies – advice on various invitations to tender for construction and supply contracts regarding the construction and equipping of a new technology centre (double-digit million euro amount)
• Globally operating industrial company – advice on damages proceedings before a civil court upon conclusion of a procurement procedure
• Globally operating industrial company in the field of IT – advice on the admissibility and appropriateness of filing applications for review and examination of individual public procurement law issues (for example, with regard to the consequences of corporate restructuring from a public procurement perspective)