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Anne Grahl

As a specialist lawyer for public procurement law and a lawyer at abante Rechtsanwälte, I mainly advise and represent private grant recipients and public clients, in particular non-university research institutions and departmental research institutions, in all matters relating to public procurement law. I specialize in tenders for research and development services and supplies. I am also involved in procurements for hospitals and universities.

Working closely with clients, I always strive to find tailor-made solutions that achieve the procurement objective in the best possible way. I am always at the client's side during the procurement procedure and also after the contract has been awarded.If desired, I am happy to take over the complete handling of the procedure and legal project management.

For me, this includes the legal support of the client's projects as well as the preparation and drafting of the contracts that are to be concluded as a result of the award procedure.

My consulting topics include

  • Market investigation
  • PCP (pre-commercial procurement)
  • Direct awards
  • Examination of exceptional circumstances
  • Choice of process type
  • Assistance with the award of contracts and processing, including legal review of tender documents, support with the design of suitability and award criteria and assistance in all presentation and negotiation rounds
  • Contract design
  • Examination of grant law requirements and their implementation as part of the awarding process
  • In-house training courses and seminars

 

Not only as a speaker at the DVNW Academy, I am very happy to regularly pass on my practical knowledge to all those interested in public procurement law in seminars and in-house training courses.

I am also a member of the German Procurement Network.

Do you have any questions on the subject of R&D procurement or public procurement law in general? Please contact me at grahl@abante.de and together we will find a solution to your problem.

Exper­tise

  • Con­duct­ing a nego­ti­at­ed award with­out a call for com­pe­ti­tion pur­suant to Sec­tion 12 UVgO for the devel­op­ment of a web-based teach­ing and learn­ing plat­form for the use of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence in a uni­ver­si­ty con­text
  • Sup­port for pub­lic ten­der­ing of pop­u­la­tion sur­vey includ­ing design and prepa­ra­tion of ten­der doc­u­ments, in 2023, val­ue EUR 18,400.00
  • Legal advice and sup­port for over 40 pub­lic ten­ders and nego­ti­at­ed awards with and with­out com­pet­i­tive ten­der­ing for research and devel­op­ment ser­vices, includ­ing pre­lim­i­nary reviews (e.g. with regard to the award­ing of con­tracts to a spe­cif­ic com­pa­ny) and prepa­ra­tion of the award doc­u­ments in con­sul­ta­tion with the spe­cial­ist sup­port team between 2022 and 2024, worth between approx. 100,000 euros and 2.1 mil­lion euros — fur­ther ongo­ing
  • Ongo­ing advice on con­tract law and pub­lic pro­cure­ment law for a nation­wide social sci­ence research insti­tute (since 2023)
  • Suc­cess­ful com­plete pro­cess­ing of a pub­lic ten­der for the pro­cure­ment of a bicy­cle leas­ing part­ner in 2024, worth approx. 3.86 mil­lion

Client tes­ti­mo­ni­als

“Spe­cial thanks go to attor­ney Anne Grahl for her always prag­mat­ic, fast and legal­ly sound sup­port in many a tricky sit­u­a­tion.”

Thomas Sauer­ack­er, Head of Finance/Controlling/Procurement, LIf­BI — Leib­nitz Insti­tute for Edu­ca­tion­al Tra­jec­to­ries e.V.

 

“Thank you very much for the pro­fes­sion­al sup­port in award­ing the con­tract!”

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of an edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tion

 

“I thought the event was great and believe that it will help many spe­cial­ist men­tors. Your pre­sen­ta­tion, mod­er­a­tion and involve­ment of the spe­cial­ist men­tors was real­ly great.”

Sem­i­nar par­tic­i­pant

 

“Thank you very much for the great event, the praise for the award­ing author­i­ty and the repeat­ed men­tions that we are depen­dent on the tech­ni­cal assis­tance of the spe­cial­ist sup­port. You did a real­ly great job.”

Sem­i­nar par­tic­i­pant

Edu­ca­tion

  • Specialist lawyer for public procurement law since 2025
  • 2020: 2nd state examination
  • 2017 - 2020: Legal clerkship Chemnitz & Leipzig
  • 2017: 1st state examination
  • 2012 - 2017: Study of law
  • 2008-2012: Training as a state-recognized physiotherapist and one year of professional experience
  • Abitur 2008, Landesschule Pforta, Saxony-Anhalt

Areas of activ­i­ty

  • Public procurement law, assistance in awarding contracts
  • Procurement dispute, procurement liability
  • Contract law (esp. construction, planning, R&D, ICT, water)
  • Project-related legal advice (construction, IKT, F&E, water)
  • Subsequent events, obstruction, defect management
  • Subsidy law, grant law, subsidy law
  • Advising and representing clients, bidders and grant recipients
  • Speaking engagements, seminars for R&D awards

Publications

"Off on your bike - the awarding of a company bike lease", in: VergabeFokus, issue 2/25, p. 2-7

Events / Sem­i­nars

Date
Subject
Contents
Provider
17.04.2025
06.06.2025
16.09.2025
19.11.2025
The design of R&D contracts - online seminar
  • Why is the topic relevant?
  • What are research and development services?
  • Market investigation
  • Choice of process type
  • Lot allocation
  • Award documents - requirements and assistance
  • Announcement - what must be included?
  • Classic legal disputes
13.06.2025
Current public procurement law in 15 minutes Awarding of grades must be plausible! Decision of the BayObLG of 07.05.2025 (Ref.: Verg 8/24)
  • Awarding of grades must be plausible! Decision of the BayObLG of 07.05.2025 (Ref.: Verg 8/24)
abante Attorneys at Law
01.08.2025
Current public procurement law in 15 minutes
  • Urgency self-inflicted: No direct award in case of prior conduct contrary to public procurement law. Munich Public Procurement Chamber, decision of June 26, 2023 - 3194.Z3-3_01-23-9
abante Attorneys at Law
05.09.2025
Current public procurement law in 15 minutes
  • Equivalent is not identical. BayObLG, decision of 05.08.2025, Ref.: Verg 2/25
abante Attorneys at Law
05.12.2025
Current public procurement law in 15 minutes
  • Special edition: Research and development services
abante Attorneys at Law
07.04.2026
15.10.2026
Procurement of large appliances - overview, pitfalls, solutions
  • Market investigation
  • Direct award - prerequisites and possibilities
    • Compatibility, interfaces and vendor lock-in
  • Product neutrality and equivalence
  • Lot formation
  • Ex ante transparency - and then what?

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