Laura McIntyre

Managing Associate, Womble Bond Dickinson

Laura specialises in procurement law. She has advised central government departments, utilities, local authorities, NHS bodies, other public sector bodies and the private sector on a wide variety of procurement law issues. Laura also has experience of advising private and public sector bodies on contract law issues at national and international levels.

Laura regularly advises on high value, complex procurement processes and the general application of procurement law, including: drafting procurement documents and related contracts; advising on challenges to procurement processes (both claimant and defendant); general ad-hoc advice on issues such as urgent direct awards; extensions and variations to existing contracts; and the robustness of procurement processes generally.

In particular, Laura has been involved with:

• the successful implementation of an innovative neutral vendor framework;

• the procurement of delivery partners to design, build, operate and maintain various heat networks across the UK;

• advising major train operators in respect of a large number of multi-million pound procurements for goods and services;

• the establishment of a multi-billion pound category tower as part of the implementation of NHS Supply Chain's future operating model;

• the successful challenge and defence of a number of procurement processes; and

• advising on and drafting a number of high value contracts relating to the supply of pharmaceutical and biomedical supplies to the manufacturers of a number of COVID-19 vaccines.

Contributed to

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Challenging a public procurement award—time limits—PA 2023

Practice notes

This Practice Note looks at the litigation time limits for bringing a challenge for breach of public procurement law under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023).

Public Law

The standstill period—PA 2023

Practice notes

This Practice Note explains the requirement imposed upon a contracting authority when it reaches its decision on the award of a public contract subject to the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023), to adhere to a standstill period before entering into the formal legal contract. The purpose of the standstill period is to allow unsuccessful tenderers the opportunity to seek further information from the contracting authority and consider whether their rights have been prejudiced during the tender process.

Public Law