Sarah Komets

Sarah Komets works in public procurement and contract law. She advises both contracting authorities and bidders on all matters pertaining to public procurement law, carries out procurement procedures on behalf of contracting authorities and supports bidders in procurement procedures. In addition, she also represents contracting authorities and bidders when it comes to complaints and in review procedures. Sarah Komets specialises in service and IT procurement.

Public Procurement Law

Sarah Komets studied law at Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) and carried out her legal training in Frankfurt/O. and Berlin (both Germany) and in New York (USA). Sarah Komets has worked in public procurement law since 2011. She worked for many years in public procurement and contract law in the legal department of a large contracting authority and its subsidiaries in the area of high-security technology, who acted at the same time as a bidder in the market. In addition, Sarah Komets also sped up public procurement processes, as well as standardisation processes in the fields of public procurement and contract law, and advised the undertaking strategically from a public procurement law perspective on matters such as stakes in other companies or considerations regarding the group’s structure before becoming head of the public procurement office. Therefore, Sarah Komets is very familiar with the practical requirements of public procurement law, both from the contracting authority’s perspective and from the perspective of the bidder. Sarah Komets joined Luther in 2020 and has successfully completed the training course for lawyers wishing to become certified specialists in public procurement law.

• Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe AöR – Assistance with individual invitations to tender (for example, security and concierge services), organisation of inhouse training
• Public utilities in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein – Public procurement law advice on the procurement of operational software, including maintenance, as well as public procurement law advice on an IT outsourcing project
• Stadtwerke Straubing – Public procurement law advice on an invitation to tender for a disposal services contract
• Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin – Ongoing public procurement law advice, in particular, assistance with a complex IT procurement project from conceptual planning through to implementation
• Hartmann Ingenieure GmbH – Ongoing public procurement law advice, representation of the company’s interests as a bidder in connection with violations of public procurement law within the context of procurement procedures, in particular in the area of landscaping and gardening
• ressourcenmangel GmbH – Ongoing public procurement law advice, most recently representation of the company’s interests as a bidder in a review procedure regarding IT consultancy and support services