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CMS: Leading public procurement lawyers 

Quality criteria for the provision of public works, supplies and services are increasingly set by professional purchasers working for contracting authorities who are subject to public procurement law. The framework conditions and regulations in public procurement are highly complex.

Comprehensive legal advice is essential in order to keep abreast of the frequent changes to public procurement law, as laid down in the new Federal Public Procurement Act 2018. As an international law firm, we support both contracting authorities and bidders in national and international tendering procedures.

Take advantage of our public procurement lawyers’ many years’ experience gained in numerous public procurement proceedings, especially in the following industries/areas:

•    Infrastructure and construction,
•    Transportation/Traffic,
•    Public health,
•    IT/Technology,
•    Compliance,
•    PPP and privatizations,
•    Energy and climate change and
•    Environment and waste management.

Sector-oriented advice on international and European public procurement law

CMS has over 150 public procurement experts in 40 jurisdictions and 55 locations worldwide, giving it an exceptional reach and capacity in both European public procurement law and international law. This enables us to support your participation in public procurement procedures in a wide range of jurisdictions. 

Our lawyers for public procurement law have cross-sector expertise. A broadly diversified approach enables us to answer all public procurement law questions, such as:

•    Establishment and function of bidding consortia,
•    Protection of confidential information,
•    Practices restricting competition,
•    Selection and evaluation criteria,
•    Specific rules concerning framework agreements and framework contracts,
•    Concession contracts, 
•    Complex PPP projects,
•    Follow-up orders,
•    Modifying concluded contracts,
•    Legal disputes related to tendering, and
•    Review and court proceedings.

Comprehensive expertise in the diverse legal issues surrounding public procurement law

If required, our CMS consultants can also assist you with questions regarding state aid or the legal framework for public accounting and public debt as well as other regulatory aspects. In doing so, we will seek the best possible approach to differently regulated public procurement procedures and represent you before the national and European authorities and courts.

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19/06/2023
Brennende Fra­gen im Ver­gaberecht und Buch­präsent­a­tion: Hand­buch Ver­gaberecht
An­läss­lich des Er­schein­ens des Hand­buchs „Ver­gaberecht“ (Manz-Ver­lag) laden die Autor:innen zum Kur­z­sem­in­ar über brennende Fra­gen im Ver­gaberecht und zur an­schließenden Buch­präsent­a­tion ein.   Die fünf Autor:innen Ruth Bittner, Bernt Els­ner, Thomas Ham­erl, Robert Keisler und Flori­an Kromer wer­den als „Kost­probe“ für das vorlie­gende Hand­buch je­w­eils ein be­son­ders ak­tuelles und prax­is­rel­ev­antes Thema an­s­prechen.   Das Hand­buch ver­mit­telt den Leser:innen das ös­ter­reichis­che Ver­gaberecht auf 448 Seiten über­sicht­lich und prax­is­nah. 3.575 Fuß­noten weis­en zu Fund­stel­len in den na­tionalen und europäis­chen Ge­set­zen, Ge­set­zes­ma­ter­i­ali­en sow­ie Entscheidun­gen der europäis­chen und na­tionalen Gerichte und Be­hörden. In einem Muster­teil wer­den praxistaug­liche Mus­ter­dok­u­mente, Leit­fäden und eine Tool­box zur Ver­fü­gung ges­tellt.   Tauchen Sie ein in die (Un-)Tiefen des Ver­gaberechts!
Event Legal
21/04/2023
Key changes for com­pan­ies re­lated to the new Gen­er­al Product Safety Reg­u­la­tion
On 30 March 2023, the European Par­lia­ment ad­op­ted the Gen­er­al Product Safety Reg­u­la­tion for con­sumer products, which re­places the Gen­er­al Product Safety Dir­ect­ive of 2001 (2001/95/EC). The Coun­cil must...
Law-Now Compliance
28/03/2023
European Par­lia­ment and Coun­cil ready to start ne­go­ti­ations on EU Data...
In Feb­ru­ary 2022 the European Com­mis­sion presen­ted its pro­pos­al for the EU Data Act, which – if ad­op­ted - will in­tro­duce a far-reach­ing leg­al re­gime on ac­cess to and use of non-per­son­al data in the...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
20/02/2023
Sun­rise peri­od of the Uni­fied Pat­ent Court to be­gin 1 March
After the fi­nal ver­sion of the UPC Rules of Pro­ced­ure had been ad­op­ted and the judges of the UPC had been se­lec­ted and ap­poin­ted, the start of the Sun­rise Peri­od, ori­gin­ally planned for 1 Janu­ary 2023...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
05/12/2022
EU Com­mis­sion pro­poses to mod­ern­ise product li­ab­il­ity rules for green and...
Cur­rent product li­ab­il­ity rules, based on the 85/374/EGK Product Li­ab­il­ity Dir­ect­ive (PLD), are nearly 40 years old and no longer suit­able for the mod­ern di­git­al age. Among oth­er things, the PLD is un­cer­tain...
Law-Now Dispute Resolution
13/09/2022
UPC Rules of Pro­ced­ure go in­to force with judg­ments to be made pub­lic
The entry in­to force of the Rules of Pro­ced­ure is part of the fi­nal pre­par­a­tions for the United Pat­ent Court (UPC), which is cur­rently ex­pec­ted to start work in early 2023. After the bod­ies of the UPC...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
12/09/2022
CMS Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Con­tact Card
World-class pub­lic pro­cure­ment spe­cial­ists The qual­ity of pub­lic ser­vices is in­creas­ingly de­term­ined by world-class skills in pub­lic pro­cure­ment. The pro­cure­ment re­gime ap­plies not only to the pub­lic...
Brochures
26/08/2022
Pub­lic pro­cure­ment reg­u­la­tion in Aus­tria
Ju­ly 2021 1. Where can one find pub­lic pro­cure­ment no­ti­fic­a­tions? As of 1 March 2019 an­nounce­ments and no­ti­fic­a­tions for Aus­tria have to be pub­lished un­der the link ht­tps://aus­s­chreibun­gen.usp.gv.at/at.gv.bm­dw.eproc-p/pub­lic...
Expert Guide Public Procurement
01/08/2022
The Dom­in­ance and Mono­pol­ies Re­view: Aus­tria
The Aus­tri­an com­pet­i­tion team has provided a com­pre­hens­ive re­view of the most re­cent de­vel­op­ments in the field of ab­use of dom­in­ance in Aus­tria as part of the 10th edi­tion of the Dom­in­ance and Mono­pol­ies Re­view. In this chapter Bernt Els­ner, Part­ner and Head of Aus­tria and CEE Com­pet­i­tion PAG,  Di­eter Zand­ler, Co-Head of the Aus­tri­an com­pet­i­tion prac­tice group, and Vanessa Hor­aceck, As­so­ci­ate in the Aus­tri­an com­pet­i­tion prac­tice group cov­er the dis­tinct char­ac­ter­ist­ics of Aus­tri­an an­ti­trust law and provide an over­view of the most prom­in­ent cases in the past years. Read­ers can fa­mil­i­ar­ise them­selves with the re­cent prac­tice of the Aus­tri­an FCA and courts in the field of ab­use of a dom­in­ant mar­ket po­s­i­tion, as for ex­ample in the OGH’s rul­ing against Peugeot Aus­tria GmbH or the case against Mer­ck Sharp & Dohme GmbH, who al­legedly ab­used a dom­in­ant po­s­i­tion through their pred­at­ory pri­cing of a drug used to treat brain tu­mours. Also worth read­ing is an over­view of the most im­port­ant fi­nal de­cisions in ab­use pro­ceed­ings be­fore the Aus­tri­an car­tel courts in re­cent years, most of which were ini­ti­ated by private plaintiffs.The en­tire art­icle is avail­able here. Our CMS ex­perts will be happy to an­swer any ques­tions on this top­ic.
Publication
24/06/2022
Reg­u­la­tion on for­eign sub­sidies is head­ing for the fin­ish line - European...
Since 5 May 2022, EU tri­logue ne­go­ti­ations have been un­der­way on the first Reg­u­la­tion to lim­it the ef­fect of sub­sidies from third coun­tries to com­pan­ies act­ive in the EU. That an agree­ment will be reached...
Law-Now ESG
22/09/2022
8th CMS Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment For­um
We are de­lighted to an­nounce that the 8th CMS Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment For­um will take place in Oslo on Thursday, 22 Septem­ber 2022 from 12:45 - 17:30 p.m. CET provid­ing an up­date on European pub­lic pro­cure­ment law.The pro­gramme will cov­er policy de­vel­op­ments in the EU and re­cent and im­port­ant de­cisions from the ECJ with high rel­ev­ance in prac­tice. In the second part of the event, we in­vite you to a com­par­at­ive view shar­ing ex­per­i­ences from sev­er­al jur­is­dic­tions on two top­ics with prac­tic­al rel­ev­ance:decim­al­possible dam­ages claims an­dtime lim­its and cut off for claims.The con­fer­ence will be held in Eng­lish and free of charge. There will be the pos­sib­il­ity to par­ti­cip­ate re­motely for any­one in­ter­ested in these top­ics, but un­able to at­tend in per­son. 
Event Legal
14/06/2022
Stefan Honeder ver­stärkt die Fachbereiche Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment und Reg­u­lat­ory...
The pub­lic pro­cure­ment spe­cial­ist also has com­pre­hens­ive ex­per­i­ence in the field of con­struc­tion law and con­struc­tion-re­lated dis­putes.
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