Lukas Oskar Voß

Lukas Voß advises both private companies and the public sector on all matters pertaining to public procurement law, through all stages of domestic and EU-wide procurement procedures.

His services include planning and conceptually designing the procedure, assisting contracting authorities with the preparation of the tender documents, advising on communications between contracting authorities and bidders in electronic procedures, including handling bidder inquiries and complaints, through to assisting contracting authorities with the review of applications to participate and bids and with the contract award decisions.

Moreover, he also helps contracting authorities document the entire procurement procedure comprehensively in a legally watertight manner.

Where necessary, Lukas Voß advises and represents contracting authorities or bidders in procurement review proceedings before the public procurement tribunal or in appeal proceedings before the higher regional court.

Further services include advising on the handling of subsidies and providing expert opinions on diverse questions of public procurement law.

State, Administration, Public Undertakings
Public Procurement Law

Lukas Voß initially trained as a banker and then went on to study law on a scholarship from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. He passed his first state law exam with an emphasis on public law at Georg August University in Göttingen (Germany) in 2019 and his second state law exam at the Higher Regional Court of Celle (Germany) in 2021. His legal training inter alia included working in the Hamburg office of an internationally operating law firm in public business law and at the Ministry of the Interior and Sports of the German state of Lower Saxony.

Lukas Voß started his career as a lawyer with Luther in 2022. In 2024, he successfully completed the training course in public procurement law designed for lawyers as a step towards becoming a certified specialist in public procurement law.

• Advised and represented a maximum care hospital on the conceptual design and implementation of an EU-wide procurement procedure (negotiated procedure) for the award of a contract regarding the implementation of a closed-loop medication management system (eligible project type 5 under the German Future of Hospitals Act), including the successful defence against a review procedure before the Public Procurement Tribunal of Northern Bavaria
• Advised a municipal maximum care hospital on the conceptual design and implementation of an EU-wide competitive dialogue procurement procedure for the supply and management of hospital beds and accessories
• Advised a chamber of commerce and industry on the procurement of construction works
• Advised a nationwide private hospital operator on various procurement procedures regarding modernisation and digitalisation measures subsidised under the German Future of Hospitals Act, including stating the reasons for and documenting direct awards of contracts in an audit-proof manner
• Reviewed procurements on behalf of the development bank of a German state in cases where contracting authorities in the higher education sector awarded projects supported by funds from that state or from the EU
• Advised a transport association on various national and EU-wide procurement procedures for the modernisation of the transport infrastructure
• Prepared reports stating the reasons for and documenting direct awards of contracts on behalf of various contracting authorities
• Advised a municipal maximum care hospital on the conceptual design and implementation of EU-wide negotiated procurement procedures with a call for competition for the procurement of management support services for the operation the hospital’s own pharmacy and the organisational development of a sterile services unit for medical devices
• Advised various institutions on the procurement of building cleaning services
• Advised public hospitals and university hospitals on the procurement of large medical devices
• Advised a maximum care hospital on EU-wide contract award procedures for the procurement of management and maintenance services regarding medical technology and full textile supply services
• Advised a rural district on an invitation to tender for a ferry service contract
• Advised a state tourism marketing company on the preparation and implementation of national invitations to tender and EU-wide procurement procedures, in particular for the procurement of marketing services

• Deutsches Vergabenetzwerk (DVNW), Hanover Regional Group
• forum vergabe e.V.
• German Bar Association (DAV)
• Altstipendiaten der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.