Jerzy Pieróg

Practice Areas

Jerzy Pieróg, advocate, founder of PIERÓG & Partners Law Firm, which he has headed for 25 years. Permanent Mediator, as well as Permanent Conciliator of the Arbitration Court at the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland. Member of the Public Procurement Council of the President of the Public Procurement Office.

Career

From 1995 to 1997, he worked at the Public Procurement Office as director of the Appeals Team, where, among other things, he organised and coordinated the work of panels of arbitrators. He also served as an arbitrator on the list of the President of the Public Procurement Office for ten years, presiding over arbitration panels on numerous occasions.

He participated in the work of governmental and parliamentary bodies as an expert on numerous amendments to public procurement legislation, including as the main expert of the parliamentary sub-committee working on the Public Procurement Law from 2003 to 2004. In 2019, he also participated in the final stage of the government's work on a new procurement law.

Since 1997, advisor and attorney in the most prominent tender and appeal proceedings in Poland, starting with the construction of the Świętokrzyska Route and Siekierkowska Route in Warsaw, through the construction of power units, e.g. at the Opole Power Plant and the Żerań Combined Heat and Power Plant, to participation in tenders and implementation of the largest IT contracts, e.g. for the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS), the Centre for Information Technology (COI), the Centre of Healthcare Information Systems (CSIOZ), PGW Wody Polskie, the Institute of Telecommunications (Instytut Łączności) and the National Support Centre for Agriculture (KOWR). At present, he supports the Firm's provision of legal services to the Central Communication Port (CPK), major healthcare entities or higher education institutions.

Long-time lecturer on public procurement at postgraduate programmes at the Warsaw School of Economics and the Business School of the Warsaw University of Technology, as well as at classes for trainee attorneys at law.

Since 2012, he has been consistently ranked number one in Chambers Europe's international ranking of public procurement lawyers in Poland.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Public Procurement Council of the President of the Public Procurement Office.

Publications

Jerzy Pierog is the author of 15 editions of Commentary on Public Procurement Laws, published by C.H.Beck Publishers, as well as many other books, journalistic articles and papers presented at academic conferences.

He was among the 'Founding Fathers' of the monthly magazine Public Procurement - Advisor. Currently, he is a member of its Programme Board and Editorial Team