In the world of public bidding and grant submissions, even the smallest errors – one wrong or omitted word, one improper exception, one failed form requirement – may lead to wholesale disqualification of your proposal and invalidate your hard work. Stevens & Lee attorneys have decades of experience in RFP review and evaluation, form review and compliance and bid challenges.
Our team has advised clients on every aspect of public bidding and has argued many precedent-setting cases in New Jersey. We understand that it’s much more efficient and cost effective for bidders to devote time and effort to preparing a solid bid rather than seeing a bid rejected for an error that could have been caught and corrected early in the long process. Our attorneys can guide you through the process and help avoid costly inefficiencies and failures.
You have developed a great product and a government entity is interested in buying it, but you are told your product can only be purchased through a potentially months-long advertised competitive bid process. While that is possible, there are alternative mechanisms that may be available to you that are outside the realm of advertised competitive bids. For example, there is a monetary price threshold under which advertised bidding is not required. In addition, numerous other potential avenues exist, including waivers of advertising, pilot projects, public-private partnerships and the use of national or statewide cooperative bids. Our attorneys fully understand and have experience working within the public procurement system and can help determine if other avenues are available and work to convince the government entity of their appropriateness in your unique situation.
We also assist clients who have a great product that is state-of-the-art, unique and cost-effective, but is generating little or no interest from the public agencies that would benefit from it most. We work to get our clients before the decision makers best suited to purchase and utilize their products or services.
