If you receive the unfortunate news that a PQQ application or tender has not been successful, after what is usually a lengthy and expensive process, one option is of course to mount a challenge.
To do this, you’ll need a persuasive, dynamic disputes legal team with extensive experience advising on procurement disputes. That’s where we come in.
If you’re thinking about challenging a public procurement process, the first thing to be aware of is that time is usually against you. There is a very short window, often only a matter of weeks, in which to act. Once we’ve intervened on your behalf to try and ensure a pause - to stop the successful applicant being immediately awarded the contract - we’ll make sure you have all the information you need to mount a challenge. Part of this process is ensuring the contracting authority has adequately explained its decision to you, and interrogating its methodology for arriving at that decision.
We’ll advise you on whether issuing legal proceedings is the best option for your business, and if you do decide to go ahead, we’ll be there by your side every step of the way. The outcomes of such procurement disputes are never guaranteed, but with our experienced litigation attorneys advising you, and our numerous legal colleagues across the infrastructure, transport, energy, utilities and government sectors to call on too, you’ve got the best possible chance of challenging the outcome of the procurement process.
Our Procurement Disputes capability in Ireland
It is widely acknowledged by independent directories that our team in Ireland includes some of the leading procurement lawyers in this jurisdiction. We are known for providing pragmatic and commercially-focussed solutions to procurement problems based on our extensive experience of the law and practice in this area. Having advised dozens of disappointed bidders and acted in many of the leading cases that have come before the Courts in Ireland and Northern Ireland in recent years, our lawyers are ideally placed to advise you if you feel aggrieved by the outcome of a procurement process.
Our lawyers are experienced in advising private sector operators on procurement disputes. Recent experience includes advising:
- pharmaceutical and medical device companies on judicial reviews and procurement challenges to health authorities in Ireland and Northern Ireland
- a leading payment services provider on a judicial review and a procurement challenge to the National Transport Authority in relation to the award of a contract for the provision of transport-related services
- a leading translation services provider on a procurement challenge in relation to a tender for a framework agreement to provide translation and interpreting services to public sector bodies in Ireland.
- public sector bodies on defending procurement challenges, including a state agency on a High Court legal challenge to a decision to accept a late tender for a major third-level education PPP project; and a public sector body on defending a High Court challenge to a tender for the provision of legal services
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