Local and International Tenders
Our firm is one of the leading firms in Israel in the tender law field. Our legal teams advise on complex administrative law and tender law matters throughout all stages of the tender, advising both companies and entities publishing tenders and corporations competing in tenders in a wide variety of fields. Our expert attorneys possess unique experience and a broad expertise in the field, based on long years of experience advising administrative entities and close familiarity with their decision making process.
Our legal teams specialize in advising tender committees of entities publishing tenders, and often serve as outside counsel to these entities. Our attorneys provide ongoing counsel to the tender committees regarding regulatory matters, and advise on a wide variety of other matters related to the tender. Among others, our legal teams advise on the outline of the contract or tender, including whether there is an obligation to publish a tender and holding other competitive proceedings; advise on formulating the most appropriate tender strategy; draft documents and manage preliminary proceedings, requests for information (RFI) and pre-qualification (PQ); provide advice and guidance on formulating and drafting the terms of the tender, including the threshold, contract and commercial conditions; examine bidders’ proposals, including requests for additional information; providing legal opinions regarding various matters related to the tender; providing legal counsel and representation throughout tender appeal proceedings, as required; and providing ongoing counsel regarding the final contractual agreement and related legal matters.
In addition, our legal teams accumulated extensive experience in advising local and international corporations competing in tenders in a wide variety of fields, including energy and infrastructure, transportation, procurement, logistics, services, technology, data systems, real estate, and more. Among others, our attorneys represent clients in tenders for projects combining elements of development, planning and construction, finance and operation, including Design – Build projects, BOT, PFI and PPP projects.
Our attorneys advise clients throughout all stages of the tender process, including pre-tender preliminary proceedings; drafting agreements between bidding partners, sub-contractors and joint ventures; providing legal counsel and handling contact with the tender committee regarding tender conditions and clarifications; examining offer documents, determining whether it meets the tender’s threshold and other requirements; advising clients following the publication of the tender’s results and in various proceeding before the tender committee and courts, as required; and more.
Among our clients in this field are public entities, leading local and international corporations, government ministries, government companies, military and security entities, local councils, and statutory and municipal corporations.