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Bid­ders, Appli­cants & Con­trac­tors

Accom­pa­ni­ment in the award pro­ce­dure

Dead­lines, bid­der ques­tions, final bid checks — there are traps lurk­ing around every cor­ner of the pro­cure­ment process. The ear­li­er we are involved, the bet­ter the start­ing posi­tion.

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Rule of thumb

As ear­ly as pos­si­ble

If you call after the rejec­tion let­ter, you have lost options

Legal basis

§160 Abs. 3 ARC

Notice peri­ods — absolute, no rein­state­ment

What we do for you

Dead­lines & bid­der ques­tions

We iden­ti­fy all cur­rent dead­lines and pre­pare bid­ding ques­tions togeth­er with you.

Offer end con­trol

We check your offer through the eyes of the client — before the dead­line expires.

Rep­ri­mands & review

If nec­es­sary, we for­mu­late com­plaints in due time and form and rep­re­sent you before the pro­cure­ment cham­ber.

Deter­mine dead­lines, man­age ques­tions and rep­ri­mands

Once the deci­sion has been made that a bid­ding com­pa­ny will par­tic­i­pate in the award, the cur­rent dead­lines are to be deter­mined. This starts with the par­tic­i­pa­tion appli­ca­tion or bid dead­line, but does not end there. We are think­ing of the ques­tion peri­od, the offer bind­ing peri­od, the com­plaint peri­ods, the start of the con­tract, etc. All these dead­lines must be not­ed and the actions bound by the dead­lines must be tak­en in time. Bid­der ques­tions, in par­tic­u­lar, can prove use­ful in ensur­ing your pro­ce­dur­al suc­cess. We will be hap­py to pre­pare them togeth­er with you. Some­times rep­ri­mands are also use­ful to get the client to include pro­vi­sions favor­able to your com­pa­ny. Of course, we will pre-for­mu­late them for you, in due time and form, and with the sole aim of secur­ing you the award of the con­tract.

Bid­ders and appli­cants need a help­ing hand

Award pro­ce­dures are often char­ac­ter­ized by a high degree of for­mal­i­ty. Dead­lines and for­mal require­ments lurk around every cor­ner. Par­tic­u­lar­ly bid­ders who rarely par­tic­i­pate in pub­lic pro­cure­ment, but also bid­ders who intend to sub­mit par­tic­u­lar­ly high-qual­i­ty bids, should leave noth­ing to chance here. Attor­ney guid­ance through the pro­cure­ment process can make all the dif­fer­ence when your com­pan­ion is a high­ly spe­cial­ized pro­cure­ment law firm that can pro­vide time­ly and savvy advice on how best to pro­ceed at any stage of the pro­cure­ment process. In this con­text, the aim of our efforts is by no means a con­tentious dis­pute. On the con­trary, it should be avoid­ed at all costs. The ear­li­er we are involved in the pro­cure­ment process, the more like­ly we are to be able to influ­ence this and help your sole inter­est in win­ning the con­tract to suc­ceed.

Offer end con­trol

As the dead­line for bids approach­es, the ques­tion of whether all doc­u­ments have been obtained and whether all infor­ma­tion can be ver­i­fied beyond doubt becomes increas­ing­ly urgent. Some­times the bid­der falls prey to a cer­tain oper­a­tional blind­ness, so it is advis­able to have an attor­ney look at the bid through the eyes of the client. Then, how­ev­er, it is of deci­sive impor­tance that this lawyer also has the eyes of the client, i.e. — like us at abante Recht­san­wälte — has expe­ri­ence from hun­dreds of award pro­ce­dures and can there­fore accu­rate­ly assess how the client is like­ly to per­ceive and exam­ine indi­vid­ual bid con­tents. So, as a spe­cial­ized law firm, we will glad­ly take over the final bid inspec­tion for you, if only you sub­mit the bid to us in time enough. In this way, we pro­tect you against a sur­prise exclu­sion from the offer. And get you all the award oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Typ­i­cal pro­ce­dure

  • Check award doc­u­ments, note all dead­lines
  • For­mu­late and sub­mit bid­der ques­tions
  • If nec­es­sary, sub­mit a com­plaint — in due time and form
  • Final offer check before the dead­line
  • Sup­port after the rejec­tion let­ter

Fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions about pro­ce­dur­al sup­port

Gen­er­al ini­tial ori­en­ta­tion — no sub­sti­tute for legal advice in indi­vid­ual cas­es.

When should I involve a pro­cure­ment lawyer?

The ear­li­er, the bet­ter. If you only call after the rejec­tion let­ter, you have already lost many oppor­tu­ni­ties. Ide­al­ly, you should get involved as soon as you read the ten­der doc­u­ments — then you can address dead­lines for com­plaints, bid­der ques­tions and for­mal risks in good time.

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He looks at your offer with the eyes of the client: Are all the required doc­u­ments avail­able? Are the proofs of suit­abil­i­ty com­plete? Are there any for­mu­la­tions that could lead to exclu­sion? Of course, it is up to you to decide what is includ­ed in the ten­der in terms of con­tent and tech­ni­cal aspects.

This is not the end. In many cas­es, it is pos­si­ble to file an appli­ca­tion for review with the com­pe­tent pro­cure­ment cham­ber. Whether this makes sense in your sit­u­a­tion depends on the indi­vid­ual case. The dead­lines for this are tight — don’t wait.

→ More on the com­plaint and review pro­ce­dure

Note: No legal advice. All answers do not replace an indi­vid­ual exam­i­na­tion by a lawyer.

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