PRACTICE AREA
Public Procurement
PRK helps clients – from global corporations and public-sector bodies to local businesses – to prepare, structure and carry out complex public procurement projects. We focus on helping all our clients, whether bidders or contractors, overcome the challenges they face.
In particular, we offer legal support in the following areas:
- Providing strategic advice to potential bidders on the public procurement process, with a strong orientation towards solutions. We can help clients assess the different options with regard to bidding strategies, structuring bids, protecting IP and knowhow, appeals, and negotiations. Where appropriate, we also work closely with the client's technical and other experts
- Assisting potential bidders in all phases of the public procurement process, including analysing tender conditions, facilitating electronic communication with the contracting authority (registering electronic tools, preparing and submitting bids), clarifying the procurement process, filing objections if appropriate and requesting reviews by the competent state authority
- Helping contracting authorities organise public procurement procedures and other tenders not falling under public procurement legislation. This includes not only preparing tender documents and contracts but also providing legal advice on the application of the authority's own regulations on public contracts and subsidy conditions, the administration of public procurement processes and other matters
- Representing clients before the Office for the Protection of Competition and before the courts
- Training in the area of public procurement
A strong legal team on your side
References
We advised a major construction company in relation its participation in tender for the reconstruction of the National Museum, a project worth over CZK 1 billion.
We advised PKE ČR s.r.o., a leading European supplier of integrated security, communications, building and transport technology, on its tender for the renewal of an integrated security solution for the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant.
We advised a construction company in connection with its participation in a public tender procedure for construction work. Our support including helping protect the company against misconduct by the contracting authority, as part of which we represented them before the Office for the Protection of Competition and in legal proceedings before the Regional Court in Brno and the Supreme Administrative Court, and subsequently also in civil legal proceedings.
We advised Alexion Pharma Czech on public procurement issues connected with the company's participation in public procurement procedures for the supply of medicinal products.
We advised Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH, a member of the Springer Group, on its participation in multiple tender procedures for above-the-threshold public contracts.
