Public Procurement

Typical areas covered

  • Structuring of the public procurement process
  • Review and preparation of tender documentation, including bids
  • Support in contractual negotiations
  • Public procurement review and remedies

Recent Representative Experience

  • Advising client, an international consortium, on local legal aspects of the Concession agreement draft for the “Bratislava new university hospital (NUHB)” PPP project (DBFOM basis).
  • Advising the Ministry of Transport of the Slovak Republic, on legal aspects of the pilot highway PPP in Slovakia, including comprehensive analysis of the Slovak legal framework for implementation of infrastructure PPP projects, recommendation of the optimal legal structure and form of the pilot PPP project and allocation of risks among the public and private sectors.
  • Advising client, a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden, on public procurement aspects of various highway PPPs in Slovakia, including review of bids, advising on potential remedies against decisions eliminating the tenderer / awarding the public contract and representing the client in related litigation.
  • Advising client, a multinational construction and development company based in Sweden, on a complaint to the European Commission over the Public Procurement Office’s decision to cancel a tender for railway track modernisation.
  • Advising client, an international road telematics, information technology and telecommunications group, on a public tender for setting up an electronic toll collection system in Slovakia.
  • Advising client, the Slovak railway passenger transport company, on a public tender for catering services and beverage-serving services.
  • Advising various confidential bidders and public sector bodies in relation to all aspects of public tenders.
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