Public Procurement Challenges and Public Procurement Litigation

Blake Morgan’s specialist team of public procurement litigation solicitors advise both bidders and contracting authorities on challenges arising from public procurements in all sectors.

Our extensive procurement expertise and up to date knowledge of both domestic and European law enables us to advise on the best course of action to adopt tailored to the circumstances in issue.

We have extensive experience of dealing with Court proceedings involving all kinds of procurement disputes and in negotiating settlements in this area, including through mediation.

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Main Areas Of Practice


Documentation

Our experts advise economic operators and contracting authorities on the lawfulness of procurement documents and whether they are lawful or open to challenge.

Lawfulness of the procurement process

We advise on the lawfulness of procurement processes and whether grounds of challenge exist. We deal with all types of challenges including those relating to evaluation criteria and scoring methodologies, manifest errors, sub-criteria, breaches of the principles of transparency, equal treatment, proportionality and non-discrimination and those involving limitation issues.

Standstill provisions

Our procurement experts advise on the information to which economic operators are entitled following the notification of the contract award including standstill obligations and standstill periods where applicable.

The automatic suspension

We are experienced in navigating with clients the implications of issuing Court proceedings and the effect of the automatic suspension, including dealing with applications to lift the automatic suspension.

State aid

We advise on the issue of state aid in procurement processes and advise on challenges based on allegations that there has been unlawful use of state aid.

Preserving confidentiality

Our experts are experienced in appropriately preserving confidentiality in commercially sensitive information by using confidentiality rings within procurement proceedings.

Judicial Review

The expertise of our procurement litigation team also extends to dealing with challenges to procurement decisions which may need to be brought by way of judicial review.

Our Clients


We act for a substantial number of private sector clients ranging from large multi-national companies to charities and SMEs.

We also act for a substantial number of public sector organisations throughout the UK including Welsh Government, NHS England, NHS Wales Shared Services, all Local Health Boards in Wales, NHS bodies including CCGs and Trusts and a number of local authorities.

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Highlights


Successfully defending NHS England in a £1bn procurement challenge brought to its largest ever medicines procurement involving the supply of Hepatitis C (AbbVie Limited -v- NHS Commissioning Board (operating under the name of NHS England) [2019] EWHC 61 (TCC)).


Advising an economic operator on and during a simultaneous procurement challenge to and judicial review of a contracting authority's published ITT documentation during a procurement process. To include issues arising around the automatic suspension, sealing of the court file, consolidation of the case management of the proceedings, confidentiality obligations and ultimately, the successful conclusion of the dispute.


Successfully acting for NHS England in the first case to consider the NHS (Competition, Procurement and Patient Choice) No 2 Regulations 2013. The case concerned an application for Judicial Review of a decision by NHS England not to contract with a provider for an interim period pending a national review and procurement of the service in question. Damages were also claimed under the Human Rights Act 1998 ([2015] EWHC 3752 (admin))


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Events

We are delighted to host a virtual webinar being held on Wednesday 20 March between 10am and 11am giving an update on the latest in procurement law.

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Articles

What is the new procurement regime for health services in England? On 1st January 2024, the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (the "PSR Regulations") came into force....

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Case Studies

What is a sufficiently serious breach? We explain the landmark ruling in Braceurself Limited v NHS England. The primary question for the Court of Appeal in this case was whether,...

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Tips for procuring leisure projects and transitioning from in-house to private practice lawyer, being discussed at a meeting.

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