Rules on public and utilities contracts
Public sector bodies and utilities are subject to detailed requirements when awarding larger contracts, and financiers are increasingly alert to the risks of challenge-to-award procedures and the threat these may pose to their investment.
Our specialist public procurement team advises clients on how to ensure maximum flexibility within the scope of relevant requirements and the commercial dynamics of their projects.
Our experience in this field includes:
- successfully challenging the proposed unlawful exclusion of our client from a major IT supply contract to be awarded by the EU Council of Ministers
- advising a client on the procurement issues arising in relation to the construction of a power generation station
- advising on the issues raised by the creation of a consortium to develop and improve railway infrastructure in connection with the renewal of the East Coast mainline (UK)
- advising on aspects of an important infrastructure project in the transport sector, including road and rail interests and the award of interrelated contracts
- advising a well known hospital on the public procurement regime in relation to a food outsourcing contract and a property development project.