Public Sector Experience
DEFRA
We advise DEFRA on major procurements and outsourcing services
Residual Waste Management Scheme
Advised on its residual waste management scheme
Local Authority Waste Management Schemes
Advising on Bristol, Cornwall PFI, Gloucestershire PFI, Gwynedd PP, Isle of Man PPP, Plymouth PPP, South Gloucestershire PFI, Wakefield PFI, West Berkshire PFI and Wrexham PFI waste management schemes.
Thermal Treatment and Advanced Thermal Treatment
Advising on Isle of Man, Edmonton, North London, Allington and Huddersfield energy from waste schemes. We are advising on a number of merchant facilities using pyrolysis and gasification technology for the processing of various commercial waste streams.
Local Authorities and contractors
Advising on contracts for the transport, storage, treatment and disposal to landfill of MSW and for the design, construction and operation of CA sites, transfer stations, MRFs, AD, IVC, MBT and EfW facilities
Local Authority Joint Working
Advised Croydon, Kingston, Sutton and Merton, and Northamptonshire and its districts and boroughs on inter-authority joint working arrangements.
Restormel Borough Council
Advising on the defence of an appeal against an abatement notice served as a result of odours from a sewage treatment works
Avon and Somerset Police Authority
Acting on behalf of 13 other police authorities, in its pathfinder outsourcing of forensic analysis services (estimated value of £200 million), as well as on Project ISiS, a collaborative procurement with two local authorities for shared corporate services (estimated value of £500 million).
BAE Systems
Advising on state aid issues relating to a number of collaborative arrangements including a £17 million DTI backed project including Rolls Royce, Airbus and Williams F1.
Department of Communities and Local Government
Advising on purchasing arrangements for the Pan-Governmental Agreement for geographic information worth in excess of £100m, on behalf of over 100 government departments and public bodies. This includes advice on state aid, procurement and all aspects of the wider commercial arrangements.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Advising on the procurement aspects of its outsourcing of facilities management services for its estate in North West Europe, involving 13 different jurisdictions.
Ministry of Defence and Department for Transport
Advising on the outsourcing under a PFI agreement of the provision of Search and Rescue Helicopter Services throughout the UK and the Falkland Islands (estimated value between £3 - 5 billion), which is one of the first major procurements to be run under the competitive dialogue
London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority
Advising on various procurements including: its Corporate Property Project, involving the review of its entire property portfolio and the redevelopment of its headquarters building at Albert Embankment (involving the use of the competitive dialogue) and associated fitting out procurements.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Advising on the legal implications of their procurement practices from a UK and EC Treaty perspective.