Procurement Law

The lawyers of the Procurement Law team are happy to help you with all legal aspects of tender procedures, from advising contracting authorities on setting up tender procedures to assisting tenderers in submitting tenders or conducting interim relief proceedings. We assist both tenderers and contracting authorities.

Our expertise

Procurement law is a complex area of law with many regulations and strict deadlines that call for speed and precision. You can contact us for all questions about procurement, for instance:

Is there an obligation to issue invitations to tender and which tender procedure is the most appropriate? What exceptions does the Public Procurement Act provide? Our team can tell you more about public, restricted, private, national, European and other tender procedures.
Do the specifications of the tender comply with the procurement rules? Do the specifications contain unreasonable conditions? Our procurement lawyers would be happy to review your tender documents.
What questions should you ask as part of the Summary of Additional Information and Changes? And how should these questions be answered? We can help you draft the right questions or answer them.
Do you need help preparing or assessing a tender, for instance completing the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD)? Or do you have a question about references or certification?
Does the bid meet the requirements set in the tender documents?
May an error be corrected or a tender supplemented?
Do you want to file a complaint with the contracting authority’s complaints desk or the Procurement Experts Committee (Commissie van Aanbestedingsexperts)?
Do you disagree with the award decision? Or does one of the tenderers disagree with your award decision? We would be happy to discuss with you what options are available to challenge or defend the outcome of a tender procedure.
Are you looking for a lawyer to assist you in interim relief proceedings or other proceedings? Our procurement lawyers would be happy to help you.

Contact

Joost Fanoy

Attorney-at-Law Partner

Specialisms

We have broad experience in many types of procurement in different sectors, like:

Tender procedures for the supply of software, printers and hardware, school furniture and medical equipment. We have extensive experience in tendering in the Defence & Security sector.
Tender procedures for services, like secondment, catering, IT, engineering services, healthcare and youth care.
Tender procedures for works, for instance in the energy sector and in construction (area development).

Our procurement lawyers have extensive experience in assisting healthcare providers (youth aid and support under the Social Support Act) in procurement procedures, covering topics like open house procedures of municipal authorities and care procurement by health insurers. We also have specific experience in public transport concessions and advertising concessions.

Procurement Law and Competition Law

As our lawyers also specialise in competition law, our team is in a perfect position to assist you at the interface of competition law and procurement law. This may be the case, for example, if a tenderer wants to bid for a tender through different companies, or if a tenderer has made prohibited arrangements with another tenderer.

The procurement lawyers are active members of the Dutch Procurement Law Association (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Aanbestedingsrecht; NVvA). They also regularly write articles for legal journals and teach procurement law courses.