Our firm is one of the leading firms in Israel in the tender law field, with decades of experience in the field. We regularly represent public entities in local and international tenders, as well as corporations competing in tenders. As a result, our attorneys accumulated unique experience and broad expertise representing clients on “both sides of the table”, as well as close familiarity with the decision-making process of administrative entities.
We regularly represent local and international corporations competing in tenders. Our attorneys advise clients throughout all stages of the tender process, from initial examination of the tender requirements and forming joint ventures to compete, through meeting tender threshold requirements and other conditions, to the publication of the tender results, including representation in appeals before the tender committee and courts, as required.
Our legal teams specialize in advising tender committees of entities publishing tenders, and often serve as outside counsel to Israel’s largest public entities in this regard. 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, as well as representation in contentious proceedings as required.
We are well-versed in representing clients in administrative claims related to tenders, with decades of experience in representing local and international clients before government authorities and various legal courts in a variety of procedures in the field of tenders, including appeals against the validity of tender conditions, appeals against tender results and more. Over the years, our firm had a key role in creating precedent rulings in the tenders field, including in relation to determining the scope of administrative discretion of tender committees, the reasonableness of threshold conditions and the proper procedure of managing tenders in various aspects.
