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Public Procurement

UK-wide

12 Years Ranked

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Provided by Laura Wisdom

UK

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Director in the firm’s Projects team. Laura has extensive experience advising public and private sector clients on the public procurement aspects of high value, innovative and complex projects in the UK and internationally. Laura’s experience includes drafting, negotiating and evaluating tender and contract documentation, structuring and managing procurement processes and advising clients engaged in all forms of dispute resolution.

Regularly advises central Government departments (including MoD, FCO and Defra) on major projects such as Defra’s c.£200m contract for the urgent supply of food boxes to extremely vulnerable people during the Covid-19 pandemic and the MoD’s £2.9billion competition for new facilities management contracts. Also advises local authorities on innovative projects such as Bristol City Council’s ‘City Leap’ initiative, aimed at delivering c. £1billion of energy infrastructure. Laura has advised on some of the most high profile bid challenges of recent years, and also regularly advises private sector organisations on procurement processes and bid strategies.

Career

Laura joined Burges Salmon in 2018 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.

Professional Memberships

Procurement Lawyers' Association.

Publications

Member of the Editorial Board of the Public Procurement Law Review. Laura was also co-author, and lectured on, aspects of the King’s College London MA and postgraduate diploma in UK public procurement regulation.

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Public Procurement - UK-wide
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Band 4

Laura Wisdom advises public and private sector clients on a wide range of procurement matters, in particular procurement procedures, contract documentation and disputes.

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