Public Procurement Advisory

In public procurement law, ROWAN LEGAL is a longstanding and highly regarded partner for both contracting authorities and suppliers, as evidenced by our recognition as recommended law firm in the Law Firm of the Year awards in this area, including two victories and other high rankings in foreign rankings (LEGAL500 and Chambers & Partners).

We have provided advice on a number of extraordinary projects worth billions, as well as on current public contracts, both in the process of preparation of the investment plan and subsequent management of the tender procedure, as well as in the case of procedural defense against the Office for the Protection of Competition and administrative courts.

How we can help:

• Analyses of complicated legal issues in the field of public procurement law.
• Consultation on complex projects in the public sector, including the application of expertise from other legal sectors.
• Legal support for contracting authorities in awarding public contracts.
• Preparation of objections against acts of the contracting authority, preparation of decisions of the contracting authority on submitted objections, representation in proceedings before the Office for the Protection of Competition and administrative courts.
• Legal support of domestic and foreign suppliers in connection with their participation in tenders.
• Support for contracting authorities and selected suppliers in connection with the implementation of public contracts after the signing of the contract (changes in obligations from a private contract to a public contract,).
• Providing lectures and training tailored to the needs of a particular client or supplier.

Selected references:

DOPRAVNÍ PODNIK HL. M. PRAHY
Legal support for the contracting authority in providing full service trains on all three lines of the Prague metro in the order of tens of billions of CZK.

ŘEDITELSTVÍ SILNIC A DÁLNIC ČR
Long-term legal support of the Directorate of Roads and Motorways of the Czech Republic in the implementation of the basic purpose of this state-subsidized organization, which is to ensure the administration, maintenance and repair of motorways and Class I roads and to ensure the construction and modernization of motorways and Class I roads.

MINISTERSTVO PRO MÍSTNÍ ROZVOJ
Legal support within the tender procedure for the acquisition of a new monitoring system for the 2021–2027 (MS2021 +) programming period, including its operation and development.
Setting up a new plan for ensuring the management of public lighting in the capital through so-called “in-house” cooperation.

DOPRAVNÍ PODNIK HL. M. PRAHY
The provision of legal services for contracting the supply chain for the construction of the first section of the new metro line D, Pankrác-Olbrachtova for CZK 1 billion. It was a complex of procurement procedures implemented in the form of an open procedure.

WOODEYE AB
Legal support of a supplier in a public procurement procedure (open procedure) awarded by the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague