Increasingly more public sector organisations are discovering the many opportunities that tendering has to offer. Tendering is not only a fair process, it also stimulates competition and accordingly leads to more efficient pricing.

 

But writing an invitation to tender that complies with EU procurement law can be a burden. It requires special skills. Not least legal skills. EU procurement legislation comprises a whole range of social, ethical and other requirements that have to be observed and this legislation is constantly in a state of flux.

 

If your purchasing department lacks the relevant legal expertise, one of our highly trained professionals is on hand to help you organise your tender procedures enabling you to write flawless invitations to tender.

 

Our EU procurement consultants can help you to improve the organisation of your tender procedures and can also help you to enhance the legal skills and expertise of your procurement department in a three phase approach:

 

• Step 1: Thinking: Our EU procurement consultants will perform a quick scan of your purchasing procedures. This quick scan helps to identify current compliance with relevant legislation. It will also pinpoint existing legal skills and expertise based on an examination of your tender policy, tender process, support systems and standards.

• Step 2: Embodiment: Clearly specifying the goals, milestones, outcomes and capability so you can improve your processes, standard documentation and skills.

• Step 3: Management: Developing processes that allow you to manage the improvement of the legal expertise effectively. Embedding the improvements into the organisation of your department.

 

Over the last 10 years our EU procurement leader has been closely involved in the writing of EU invitations to tender as a procurement specialist. He has an in-depth knowledge both of the legal aspects and the practicalities of drafting EU compliant invitations to tender. He knows how to organise and improve legal skills and expertise of purchasing departments. He has published several articles on different aspects of EU procurement and is currently preparing a manual on the use of the tender mechanism in the allocation of government grants and subsidies.

 

Please contact us to find out how we can help improve your EU procurement process.