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Dr. Ste­fan Schmidt

As a lawyer specializing in IT and public procurement law, I support public and private clients in the legally compliant handling of their IT projects, with a particular focus on IT contract law and IT security law. I also have expertise in German and European antitrust law.

Further information at a glance:

  • Doctorate on a topic related to antitrust law (s.c.l.)
  • 2nd state examination in Leipzig (with distinction), including a station at the Cartel Panel of the Higher Regional Court of Dresden
  • Assistant to the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law and Civil Procedure Law, Prof. Dr. Petra Pohlmann, Münster
  • Membership in the Society of Young Civil Law Scholars
  • Alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation

 

Exper­tise

  • Award of project man­age­ment and man­age­ment archi­tect ser­vices for an agile soft­ware project incl. con­tract design, val­ue: approx. € 2.3 mil­lion
  • Award­ing of soft­ware devel­op­ment ser­vices accord­ing to an agile process mod­el, upstream sub­mis­sion of an expres­sion of inter­est pro­ce­dure for source code pro­tec­tion, inte­gra­tion of an eval­u­a­tive test posi­tion in the bid­ding phase, val­ue: approx. €5 mil­lion
  • Advis­ing a pub­lic client on ways out of “failed” soft­ware devel­op­ment projects
  • Var­i­ous exten­sive expert opin­ions in con­nec­tion with ques­tions of pub­lic pro­cure­ment and antitrust law, e.g. on ques­tions of secre­cy and imma­te­r­i­al hur­dles in the han­dling of pro­ce­dures; on the imple­men­ta­tion of state tar­iff reg­u­la­tions in Baden-Würt­tem­berg; on the impli­ca­tions of coop­er­a­tion between con­tract­ing author­i­ties on bid­ding com­pe­ti­tion
  • Prepa­ra­tion and pro­cess­ing of sub­si­dized IT awards in accor­dance with UVgO, e.g. con­sult­ing ser­vices for the con­cep­tion and intro­duc­tion of a new ICT guide­line, spe­cial­ist train­ing and IT cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of employ­ees, cre­ation and pro­duc­tion of instruc­tion­al videos, test­ing a home­page for acces­si­bil­i­ty, pur­chase of a dig­i­tal learn­ing library and oth­er e‑learning con­tent, soft­ware devel­op­ment ser­vices for a spe­cif­ic ERP sys­tem for use in vol­un­tary work, soft­ware devel­op­ment ser­vices for a mobile app, on premise imple­men­ta­tion of a secu­ri­ty oper­a­tions cen­ter, var­i­ous hard­ware pro­cure­ments
  • Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of bid­ders in pub­lic pro­cure­ment law mat­ters, in par­tic­u­lar in con­nec­tion with IT and intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty law issues
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Edu­ca­tion

  • Doctorate on a topic related to antitrust law (s.c.l.)
  • 2nd state examination in Leipzig (with distinction), including a station at the Cartel Panel of the Higher Regional Court of Dresden
  • 1st state examination in Münster (with distinction)
  • Assistant to the Chair of Civil Law, Commercial Law and Civil Procedure Law, Prof. Dr. Petra Pohlmann, Münster
  • Associate in an international Frankfurt business law firm
  • School years and Abitur in Wiesbaden

Areas of activ­i­ty

  • IT security law
  • IT Contract Law
  • Data law
  • Data protection law
  • German and European antitrust law
  • Civil Antitrust Law
  • Public procurement law

Publications

  • Procurement law control of system ties - New standards of the ECJ for dealing with vendor lock-ins in NZBau 2025, 693-699

  • Confidentiality obligation before right to information! Comment on the judgment of the VG Berlin of 13.03.2025 (Ref.: 2 K 100/23) in IBR 2025, 474

  • Even minor deviations lead to exclusion! Comment on the decision of the OLG Karlsruhe of 31.07.2025 (Ref. 15 Verg 9/25) in IBR 2025, 603

  • Compensation for the loss of the chance to win the contract, discussion of the judgment of the ECJ of 06/06/2024 (Ref.: C-547/22 - INGSTEEL) in Vergabeblog.de of 02/09/2024, No. 57313
  • Caution when contacting the best bidder! Comment on the decision of the VK Westfalen of 21.02.2024 (Ref.: VK 3-42/23) in IBR 2024, 255
  • No specification of maximum quantity: Violation of procurement law, but not recognizable! Comment on the decision of the VK Westfalen of 21.02.2024 (Ref.: VK 3-42/23) in IBR 2024, 252
  • There are also unwritten functionalities! Comment on the decision of the VK Westfalen of 09.11.2022 (Ref.: VK 3-42/22) in IBR 2023, 369
  • The rightful claim in civil antitrust proceedings as a reaction to a violation of the prohibition of abuse in NZKart, 2022 pp. 113-118
  • Access to data under European antitrust law (dissertation), Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2020 (652 pages), awarded the Harry Westermann Dissertation Prize of the WWU Münster
  • Data as an access object: do we need a "data for all" law? (Guest commentary) in WuW 2018, 549
  • Advanced exam - Civil law: General law of obligations and sales law - The golden sprinter in JuS 2017, p. 1003 - 1010 with Merle Bock
  • Web trackers and antitrust law in WuW 2016, pp. 572-581
  • Conference report from the Forum Kartellrecht 2016 in Münster: The implementation of the Cartel Damages Directive - Outlook on the 9th GWB amendment in NZKart 2016, p. 126- 128
  • Learning plans for lawyers - How to get through the law exam well, blog post on e-fellows.net, 16.10.2014

Events / Sem­i­nars

Event date
Title of the event / location
Field of law
July 25, 2024
Awarding of Videoident services. New opportunities for the digitalization of administration. Format: LinkedIn Live, online
Public procurement law, IT law
March 04, 2025
March 12, 2025
March 20, 2025
March 24, 2025
March 26, 2025
April 10, 2025
Properly awarding care, maintenance and support for IT services - innovations following the ECJ ruling of January 2025 (online seminar)
Public procurement law, IT law

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