Our Procurement team advises and litigates on a wide range of aspects and issues in European and national procurement law.

Expertise
Our specialists in the team have extensive experience in:

• advising on the applicability and scope of (EU) procurement regulations (including tendering requirement, quasi-inhouse assignment, award, handling sustainability and social criteria)
• supporting contracting services in the entire procurement process (including drafting procurement, tender documentation, contracts, and answering bidders’ questions)
• assisting bidders in bidding for contracts (including reviewing key tender documents and draft contracts, asking questions, and reviewing the registration)
• guiding corporate spin-offs and privatisation operations
• conducting (summary) proceedings before the civil courts, the Court of Arbitration, and the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal
• certification according to the NTA 8058 standard ‘Requirements for the procurement practice of contracting and performing procurement audits’.

Special expertise is available regarding the IT, utilities, infrastructure, public private partnerships (PPP), public transport and healthcare sectors. Our Procurement team works closely with other specialists from Loyens & Loeff in the field of IT, real estate, taxation, corporate law, state aid and competition law.

Clients
Our team represents both contracting services (including ministries, provinces, municipalities, water boards and utilities) and national and international companies, which are confronted with procurement in their roles as service providers, contractors or suppliers.

How we work
Thanks to our extensive experience and up-to-date knowledge of procurement law, we can quickly provide high-quality service at a competitive rate. We are creative, quality- and service-oriented, fast, cost-effective, pragmatic and think in terms of solutions. We are prepared to go to court when we need to.