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Specialist lawyer for public procurement law

Public procurement law regulates how the federal government, states, municipalities and other public authorities procure goods and services, award construction contracts or grant concessions. The aim is to spend tax revenue only on the most economically advantageous offer. In addition to price, qualitative, environmental or social aspects can also be taken into account. Every year, the public sector awards contracts worth hundreds of billions of euros to private companies. Public procurement is therefore an important economic factor. Public procurement law also serves important political and creative purposes. However, it should also enable all suitable economic operators to have transparent and equal opportunities for accessing public contracts. Above the contract values set by the European Union, there is even a Europe-wide competition for public contracts. This is accompanied by monitoring by the review bodies specifically responsible for these contracts. Public procurement law is characterized by a complex network of European directives, federal regulations, state laws and an extremely diverse case law. We advise and represent public clients, concession grantors, sectoral contracting authorities, but also bidders in public procurement and review proceedings throughout Germany. If you wish to carry out a procurement procedure or apply for a public contract, we are the right address for you. Above and below the threshold values. The head of our specialist department, specialist lawyer for public procurement law Oliver Weihrauch, has specialized in this field of law since 1995. He is also the editor-in-chief of the specialist journal "Aktuelles Vergaberecht in der Praxis" (Current Procurement Law in Practice). He is considered one of the most prominent experts in this field nationwide among experts.

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for procurement law

Lawyer Oliver Weihrauch

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in the area of public procurement law

You may find initial information in the following articles. The latest publications can be found above.

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• disciplinary law
• Framework agreements for public contracts and current case law from the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz
• Price increases and extended delivery times for public contracts under public procurement law
• The review of procurement law decisions in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Procurement law and waste collection charges
• New value limits in public procurement law and simplification of the claim for damages for the unsuccessful tenderer
• Procurement law – calculation and KISS principle
• Irregularities in public procurement law 2017
• Termination of an award procedure without an award and protection of the tenderers
• Award of contract in public procurement law – which criteria apply?
• Regarding a bidder's claim for damages, in particular for lost profits
• Tenders from small and medium-sized companies for contracts
• Comment on the Federal Administrative Court ruling: Reimbursement of grants is the norm in the event of a breach of the obligation to issue a public call for tenders.
• Procurement law – an introduction and specifically on the protection of the bidder
• Procurement law – quarterly report 01/2013
• District Court of Rhineland-Palatinate: Limit to changing the subject of the procurement
• EuG judgment of January 29, 2013 on the scope of the contracting authority in assessing the aspects for the award decision
• Responsibility for the revocation of driving licenses

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Legal requirements

The specialist lawyer for procurement law is educating himself in accordance with § 14o FAO in the areas of

1. European and German procurement law,
   
   a) EU procurement directives including the respective remedies directives,
   
   b) the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB),
   
   c) Procurement Ordinance (VgV),
   
   d) the main features of the procurement laws of the individual federal states and (if available) of the federal government,
2. special features of the individual procurement procedures for:
   
   a) awarding construction contracts in accordance with VOB/A,
   
   b) awarding services according to VOL/A,
   
   c) awarding contracts for freelance services in accordance with the VOF,
   
   d) awarding contracts in the area of transport, drinking water supply and energy supply in accordance with the SektVO,
   
   e) awarding contracts in the field of defense and security in accordance with the VSVgV,
3.  Special features of procedural and process management:
   
   a) primary legal protection through review and
   
   b) the main features of procurement law proceedings before the ECJ,
   
   c) other legal protection before civil and administrative courts in connection with procurement procedures,
4. public procurement law aspects of state aid law,
5.  the basics of public price law.