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
Advising a major European manufacturer of rail vehicles in multiple tender procedures for above-the-threshold public contracts.
We assisted a Japanese-German company – a global leader in heat energy and environmental technology – in complex EPC contract negotiations for multiple above-the-threshold public contracts. This included raising objections to the tender conditions and actions taken by the contracting authority on behalf of Elektrárna Dětmarovice, a.s. and Elektrárna Komořany.
We advised a leading Czech railway vehicle manufacturer on framework contracts for the supply of railway components and services.
