Goldfarb Gross Seligman is one of the leading law firms in Israel in advising municipalities and local councils, with extensive experience in such clients in complex tenders in diverse fields.
Our legal teams specialize in advising tender committees of municipalities and local councils across Israel. 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 and defense of the validity of tender conditions, appeals against and defense of 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.
