Our specialist services
Public sector procurement
- Advising contracting authorities on compliance with procurement regulations
- Drafting and reviewing tender documents and evaluation criteria
- Reviewing contract award letters and assessment summaries
- Guidance on publication of notices
- Structuring and managing framework agreement and dynamic purchasing systems/dynamic markets
- Defending and challenging procurement decisions, including handling disputes and judicial reviews
- Updating governance processes to reflect the new regime and transition arrangements
- Preparing contract terms to reflect your procurement and to align with the requirements of the new Act
- Supporting negotiations and/or contract finalisation with suppliers during the procurement process
- Contract management and KPI’s
Supplier support
- Helping businesses and charities understand and navigate public sector procurement opportunities
- Assisting with bid preparation to consider legal compliance
- Advising on competitive challenges and remedies available under procurement law
Procurement strategy and compliance
- Developing compliant and commercially sound procurement strategies
- Advising on risk mitigation and governance best practices
- Ensuring alignment with key legislative frameworks such WFG Act (Wales), Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) and Health Services (Provider Selection Regime).
Technology and outsourcing
- Advising on ICT procurements, software licensing and managed service contracts
- Structuring outsourcing arrangements, including TUPE and contractual risk management
- Preparing and negotiating outsourcing (and insourcing) arrangements
- Ongoing contract management support
Public law
Our recent experience includes:
- providing training to all Local Authorities (LAs) in Wales on the role and responsibilities of a Monitoring Officer
- providing training to board members of a Local Authority Trading Company (LATC) in north Wales. Advice included members role both as board members and elected members of the parent local authority
- advising on the future delivery of leisure services on behalf of a Local Authority in Wales. At the end of the options analysis, the client chose to establish a LATC and we advised on its establishment. We advised on the powers of the LA to transform its leisure services, the options available, EU procurement law and commercial considerations, company law implications, property issues, charity law and employment and TUPE issues. We also provided training to board members on their role both as board members and elected members of the parent local authority
- advising the seven Community Health Councils (CHCs) in Wales (which are coterminous with the seven Welsh Local Health Boards) and providing advice and assistance to the Board whose function it is to advise, assist and monitor the performance of CHCs. We have given detailed advice regarding codes of conduct and procedures to be followed in the event of concerns raised about the conduct of CHC members and CHC staff
- we are also the sole source of legal advisors to Social Care Wales’s Regulatory Committees, including acting as advisors in its fitness to practice panels.
